Regimental Timeline

The Second or The Queen's Royal Regiment

1657-1660: The Civil Wars and the Interregnum

 

1657

Royalist Regiments Protectorate Regiments

Farrell's Irish regiment, in Spanish service since 1585, joins Charles II outside Dunkirk.

Lillingstone's, Alsop's and Reynold's Regiments among six raised by Cromwell for service in alliance with France against the Spanish in the Low Countries. Moves to Dunkirk.

Fitzgerald's Irish Regiment, raised in 1653, joins Charles II.

 

Early matchlock

Early matchlock 1650 - 1660.

 

1658

  Royalist Regiments Protectorate Regiments

4th June

Battle of the Dunes - Dunkirk. French and Cromwellian troops defeat Spanish and Royalalists.

Battle of the Dunes - Dunkirk. French and Cromwellian troops defeat Spanish and Royalalists.

 

1659

  Royalist Regiments Protectorate Regiments
 

Farrell’s and Fitzgerald’s Regiments remain with rump of Royalist Army in exile.

Lillingstone’s, Alsop’s and Reynolds’s Regiments in garrison of Dunkirk – now an English possession.

 

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