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Colonel Richard Bulkeley’s Regiment of Horse

Active1646 to 1648
CountryWales
AllegianceRoyalist
ConflictsFirst Civil War
Second Civil War
TypeHorse
ColonelRichard Bulkeley
Area RaisedAnglesey
Flag Colour
Flag Design
Field ArmiesGarrison

Royalist Anglesey regiment of horse serving in the First and Second Civil Wars

Service History

1646

  • Take Beaumaris Castle?
  • June: Surrender of Beaumaris Castle
  • June to March 1647: Besieged at Harlech Castle?

1647

  • March: Surrender at Harlech Castle?

1648

  • Raised again in the North Wales Rising
  • October: Battle of Beaumaris (one troop)

Notes

Flags and Equipment

Notable Officers

Colonel Richard Bulkeley

Variously said to be nephew or son of Lord Bulkeley, he was a Colonel in the Anglesey Trained bands prior to 1642 while still a minor. Presumably this was a semi-honorary appointment. By 1646 he was colonel of a cavalry regiment, Colonel Richard Bulkeley’s Regiment of Horse and led forces to regain Beaumaris, partly as a negotiating piece to extract better terms from the victorious Parliamentarians1).

Strength

See Also

1) The Old Service: Royalist regimental colonels and the Civil War, 1642-6 P.R. Newman, Manchester University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7190-3752-2