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Sir James Montgomery’s Regiment of Foot
Active | 1642 to 1646 |
Country | Ireland |
Allegiance | Protestant |
Royalist | |
Conflicts | Irish Confederate War |
Type | Foot |
Colonel | Sir James Montgomery |
Area Raised | Down |
Coat Colour | |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Monro 1642-6 |
Ulster settler regiment of foot fighting at Benburb
Service History
1641
- Montgomery raises 1000 foot in Ulster
- November: Defence of Lisnegarvey
1642
1643
- November: Men from the unit attempt to join the Scots in the hope of evacuation to Scotland
1644
1645
- Quartered in Little Ardes and Lecale
1646
- June: Battle of Benburb
1647
1648
1649
- September: Mustered at Ballycoine
Notes
Coats, Flags and Equipment
Notable Officers
Sir James Montgomery
Of Rosemount, brother of 2nd Lord Montgomery
Officer Lists
Lists of the unit's officers are shown in Army List of the Ulster British Forces, 1642-1646. by Kevin Forkan. Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 59 (2005), pp. 51-65 available via JSTOR, An English Army for Ireland by Ian Ryder, Partizan Press and The Battle of Benburb 1646 Clive Hollick, Mercier Press, 2011.
Strength
- 1641-2: 1000 raised
- April 1642: 103 officers, 7 staff officers, 764 men in 10 companies and 40 wagon horses
- 1642: 800 men
- September 1649: Sir James Montgomerye's:— the sargeant-major; captaines, 2; leiutenants, 2; ensignes, 2; sergeants, 4; corporalls, 6; drums, 3; souldiers, 1764).
See Also
Links
1)
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part VII, The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde
2)
The Battle of Benburb 1646. Clive Hollick, Mercier Press, 2011. ISBN 978 1 85635 670 1.
3)
Journals of the House of Lords V 226
4)
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part VII, The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, p206