Sir Robert Adair of Kinhilt's Regiment of Horse

Ulster horse raised by the Covenanters, then raised anew in Scotland for the Third Civil War

• Raised as a troop of Sir William Balfour’s Horse in Ulster

• Permitted to leave for Scotland but don't appear to have done so

• July: March on Lisnagarvey with Monro
• August: Skirmish at the River Bann?
• September: Raid Cavan

• January: Paid by the English Parliament
• June: Battle of Benburb
• Moved to England

• February: Disbanded as part of the Earl of Leven’s Regiment of Horse

• Raised anew as a second troop of William Stewart’s Regiment of Horse
• July: Adair in command of a troop of 80 horse

• Adair made Colonel
• June: Ordered to Lanark
• June: Assigned 130 horse from Wigton?
• 3rd September: Battle of Dunbar
• September: Ordered to Fife to defend Burntisland
• September: Adair leaves his troop and joins the Western Association
• December: At Kinarne and Dunblane, attached to William Stewart’s Regiment of Horse

• Quartered in Angus
• Reduced into Sir Edward Massey's Regiment of Horse, which was previously Leven's.

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

Adair's troop were raised in Ulster in 1642 as part of Balfour's horse, but it appears to have become an independent troop of Monro's Scots Covenanter Ulster army after Balfour left to join the Parliamentarians in England. After serving on campaign with Monro in 1644 and 1646, the troop were shipped to England sometime in 1646 and joined the Earl of Leven's regiment, with which they disbanded in 1647. In 1649 Adair raised the troop again, perhaps using recent returnees from the Ulster Army and the next year was promoted to Colonel, leading his regiment to defeat at Dunbar. Adair then left to join the Western Association and the troop was reduced into Massey's horse.

• 1642: 60 men¹⁾
• July: 71 officers & men
• July 1649: 80 horse