Colonel George Milne’s Regiment of Dragoons

Covenanter dragoons serving in Scottish garrisons during the First Civil War

• August: Raised by now
• September: Battle of Philiphaugh?
• November: Sent to garrison Dundee, Milne appointed governor
• November: Detachment of 100 men sent to guard the Scots Parliament at St Andrews

• Garrison of Glasgow
• June: Garrison of Aberdeen

• February: Regiment forms two independent companies of the Scots New Model Army under Blair and Sharp
• Autumn: Blair's company quartered at Dundee

• May: 18 of Blair's dragoons transfer to Lord Livingstone’s Troop of Horse and 18 to Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan
• May: Blair at Stirling with the Engagers
• May: Sharpe's company join David Barclay's Regiment of Horse
• September: Take Stirling?
• September: Disbanded after the Treaty of Stirling

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

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 1. The Army of the Covenant 1639-1651 Partizan Press 1998 ISBN 094652550

Lt Col under Milne, promoted to Colonel in 1647

Major

• February 1647: 2 companies of 100 dragoons each
• February 1647: Reduced to 2 companies of 70 each