Mackintosh Highlanders
Active | 1645 |
1651 | |
Country | Scotland |
Allegiance | Covenanter |
Royalist | |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Third Civil War | |
Type | Highlanders |
Colonel | Sir Lachlan Mackintosh? |
Area Raised | Inverness-shire |
Coat Colour | |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Urry 1645 |
Highland clan fighting for the Covenanters in 1645
Service History
1645
- May: Join Urry at Inverness
- May: Battle of Auldearn
1650
- December: Lachlane Mackintosh commissioned colonel to raise his men from Badenoch
1651
- January: Apparently the commission is lost or unsent
- Nothing more is heard of the unit
Notes
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
Clan Mackintosh are also said to have fought for Montrose.