Colonel Robert Halket’s Regiment of Horse

Covenanter regiment of horse serving at Dunbar in the Third Civil War, then joining the Western Association

• Robert Halket authorised to raise a new regiment on the basis of his troop of Sir James Halket’s Regiment of Horse
• September: Battle of Dunbar
• September: Escape to Stirling
• September: Halket, Ker and Strachan sent to the Western Association
• At Kilmarnock, Halket commissioned Colonel of a Western association cavalry regiment, incorporating his previous troops
• December: Battle of Hamilton, defeated and dispersed by Lambert

A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651 Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0

Apparently included many Dutchmen and High Germans in the western Association.

Wore buff coats but no armour under the Western Association.

• Late 1650 under the Western Association, approximately 400 horse