Marquis of Huntly’s Regiment of Foot

Active1651
CountryScotland
AllegianceCovenanter
ConflictsThird Civil War
TypeFoot
ColonelMarquis of Huntly
Area RaisedAberdeen & Banff
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Scots regiment of foot of the Third Civil War

Service History

1650

  • December: Ordered to be levied

1651

  • Raised in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire
  • Serving in Northern Scotland
  • November: Surrender

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Coats, Flags & Equipment

Notable Officers

Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquis of Huntly

Lord Lewis Gordon the third son of George Gordon, 2nd Marquis of Huntly succeeded his father as 3rd Marquis of Huntly in 1649. He served in the Lord Gordon’s Regiment of Horse for the Royalists in the First Civil War and has been characterised as either heroic or rash to the point of insanity.

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