Argyll's Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment formed in April 1689 to suppress Jacobite opposition in the Highlands. In February 1692 it took...
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colonel-in-chief of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot, that was involved in the 1692 massacre of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, but took no part in any of its field...
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Clan Campbell (redirect from Campbell of Argyll)
(elder), and Private Duncan Campbell. See also: Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot. During the Jacobite risings of the 18th century the Clan Campbell supported...
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Royal Scots Fusiliers (redirect from Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot)
Bridge in 1679 and the 1685 Argyll's Rising. Thomas Buchan, a Scottish Catholic and professional soldier replaced the Earl as Colonel in July 1686. When...
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Robert Duncanson (Scots Army officer) (category 33rd Regiment of Foot officers)
Scotland. During the Jacobite rising of 1689, he commanded the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot, the primary unit involved in the Massacre, after which he...
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approximately 120 men from the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot arrived in Glencoe. Their commander was Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, an impoverished local...
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of Glencoe. In a final effort to support his wife and family, Robert Campbell, at the age of fifty nine, joined the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot...
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Royal Scots (redirect from Earl of Dumbarton's Regiment of Foot)
Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army...
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Glen Lyon (category Glens of Scotland)
Campbell of Glenlyon (1630–1696), led the troops of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot during their involvement in the infamous massacre of the MacDonalds...
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(disambiguation) Duke of Argyll's tea tree – see wolfberry Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot Glasgow Mid Argyll, a shinty club NHS Highland and Argyll, one of the fourteen...
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are omitted. The regiment given is the regiment into which the field marshal was commissioned. This is not necessarily the regiment the officer first...
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grandfather Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll led Argyll's Rising against the rule of James II of England and VII of Scotland for which he was executed...
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This is a list of numbered regiments of foot of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1881, when numbering was abandoned. Foot was the contemporary...
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with the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The regiment was raised from the Sutherland Fencibles...
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Somerset Light Infantry (redirect from 13th Regiment of Foot)
7th Earl of Huntingdon was issued with a warrant authorising him to raise a regiment, and accordingly the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot was formed...
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Monmouth Rebellion. Argyll's Rising failed, and Argyll was captured and beheaded. He was born in 1629 in Dalkeith, Scotland, the eldest son of Archibald Campbell...
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Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1881. The regiment was raised in Argyll by General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell...
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The 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot, also referred to in short as the 8th Foot and the King's, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1685...
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Kent Regiment), formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army traditionally raised in the English county of Kent...
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Argyll's Rising, also known as Argyll's Rebellion, was an attempt in June 1685 to overthrow James II and VII. Led by Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll...
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Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot - 17th century regular regiment of the line. Loudon's Highlanders Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay (1946). The Argyll or...
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King's Own Scottish Borderers (redirect from 25th Regiment of Foot)
Borderers. The regiment was raised on 18 March 1689 by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven to defend Edinburgh against the Jacobite forces of James VII. It's...
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became colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot later that year. Campbell stood down from the House of Commons again when, on the formation of the Chatham Ministry...
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Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st Earl of Ilay, PC (June 1682 – 15 April 1761) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman, and...
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Scots Guards (redirect from 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards)
its origins to the Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment, a unit raised in 1642 by Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll in response to the 1641 Irish...
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promotion, first to captain in the 23rd Regiment of Foot, also on 14 April 1795, then to major in the 65th Regiment of Foot, on 19 May 1795 and then to lieutenant-colonel...
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The 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1701. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with...
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The 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the...
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1692 in Scotland (category Years of the 17th century in Scotland)
13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38...
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Regiment of Foot 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) 51st Regiment of Foot (King's Own...
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