The Second or The Queen's Royal Regiment
1663 - 1668: Tangier and the War in Portugal.
1663
  Irish Regiments in Tangier   English Regiments in Tangier
January Teviot arrives from Dunkirk and assumes command of the garrison.   Harley’s and Peterborough’s Regiments incorporate officers and men from Rutherford’s and Alsop’s Regiments (ex-Dunkirk). Peterborough’s Regiment becomes Teviot’s.
April Farrell’s and Fitzgerald’s regiments amalgamated as Fitzgerald’s Irish Regiment (five companies).   Harley’s and Teviot’s Regiments amalgamated as Teviot’s English Regiment (fifteen companies).

 

  Portugal    
January Morgan’s (1650), Daniel’s (1647) and Mann’s (1650) Protectorate Regiments in Scotland amalgamated into two new regiments (1st and 2nd English) under the Earl of Inchquin, and shipped to Portugal to support the War against Spain (Charles II marriage treaty).  
Matchlock
The last version of the Matchlock.
April Battle of Ameixal.  

 

1664
  Irish Regiments in Tangier   English Regiments in Tangier
  400 recruits shipped from Scotland.    
4th May Moorish ambush. Teviot killed, 400 casualties. Sir Tobias Bridge assumes command of the Garrison.
7th June Colonel John Fitzgerald returns from leave and is appointed Governor and commander of the garrison. Ordered to reduce and reorganise the garrison into two regiments, and abolish the distinction between English and Irish.
  Governor’s Regiment
(Fitzgerald)		   Lieutenant Governor’s Regiment
(Norwood)
  Regiment established with nine companies.   Regiment established with eight companies.
October Lord John Bellasise appointed Governor

 

  Portugal    
  Brigade reinforced from England and Ireland.    
  Irish troops from Tangier join the Brigade.    

 

1665
  Governor’s Regiment in Tangier   Lieutenant Governor’s Regiment in Tangier
  Two batches of 90 and 203 recruits shipped from Cornwall. Dutch frigates capture shipping bound for Tangier.
February The Mole surveyed. Work begins in May.

Hat and Sentinel’s Hanger
Hat and Sentinel’s Hanger, 1662-1680

  Portugal    
  Fighting continues.    

 

1666
  Governor’s Regiment in Tangier   Lieutenant Governor’s Regiment in Tangier
  Treaty with the Moors. Work continues on the Mole.
  Lord John Bellasise departs Tangier.

 

  Portugal    
  Fighting continues.    

 

1668
  Governor’s Regiment in Tangier   Lieutenant Governor’s Regiment in Tangier
February Two Regiments amalgamated as one – the Governor’s Regiment – of twelve companies.
  Governor’s Regiment in Tangier
23rd September Reinforced by the arrival of troops evacuated from Portugal. Colonel John Middleton assumes Governorship and command of the Regiment.

 

  Portugal    
  Brigade disbanded. 600 men returned to England, 1,000 shipped to Tangier.  
Early plug and ring bayonets
Early plug and ring bayonets, late 1600s

 

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