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Next regiment in the spotlight is Richard Browne's Regiment of Horse who have an absolutley brilliant cornet. Which is about the most exciting thing that I can actually tell you about them. Believed to have been raised in London they were based in Abingdon. After that we can only guess. Painting by Alan Tuckey, basing by my own fair hand Richard Browne was the senior captain in the Orange Regiment of the London Trained Bands, when the War broke out. He marched with Waller at Winchester and was promoted to Colonel. As Colonel his role was suppressing opposition to Parliament in London and Kent. He rejoined Waller, this time as Major General of a London Trained Bands brigade, at the victory at Cheriton. He was then promoted to  commander-in-chief of the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.  Once again he would support Waller, this time in the  Oxford campaign,  joining him shortly after the battle of Cropredy Bridge.  Bro...

The first of four Parliamentarian Regiments of Horse get the great contagion lockdown spotlight shone upon them: Colonel John Lambert's Regiment of Horse Part of Fairfax's Northern Association, they fought at Adwalton Moor, were besieged at Hull, fought at Nantwich, Bradford, Hunslett, were besieged at Bradford, took part in the siege of York, Marston Moor (where Lambert was second in command of the Yorkshire Horse), besieged Knaresborough Castle, fought at Pontefract, and besieged Skipton Castle. At Marston Moor Lambert's Horse were on Parliament's right wing, which took an absolute hammering from Goring's Royalist Horse. Lambert, and some of his men remained with Fairfax and forced their way through to join Cromwell on the left wing. Painted by Alan Tuckey, based by my own fair hand When Black Tom was appointed Captain-General of the New Model Army, John initially took over command of the Northern Association. Wounded at Pontefract, comman...

Continuing my therapeutic blogging (write rather than rant) antidote to incorrect English Civil War coat colour tables for wargamers, I give you the Royalist Regiments of Foot. For all of my coat colour articles see: Introduction   Part 1  Parliamentarian coat colours Part 3  Scots coat colours Part 3B  Montrose and the Irish Brigade Part 4  Dragoons, Horse and the New Model Army coat colours The Trained Bands London Trained Bands Auxiliary regiments Scarves   Same rules apply here, as they did with the Parliamentarian coat colours: Regiments often got renamed when command passed to a new colonel - these regiments are listed under their first name e.g. Jacob Astley's Regiment was originally Richard Fielding's Regiment. Coat colour notes refer to contemporaneous references and some of the deductions made by Reid, Spring,  Peachey and Prince. You will also notice that some regiments have several coat colours listed. Where there is some question aro...

When I first started my Civil War gaming project I relied upon the many ECW coat colour tables on wargaming websites. As my project has progressed, my library has got bigger, my research has gone back to primary sources rather than relying upon second and third hand sources; and I have noticed quite a few errors in these lists for wargamers. I have also noticed the same errors appearing in multiple lists.     As a result of continually seeing 'the London Trained Bands and their Auxiliaries wore red coats' (there is no evidence supporting this at all, the evidence, whilst not explicit suggests that the London Trained Bands wore civilian clothes - some of the Auxiliaries might have been issued with blue winter coats) I decided to write my own list.  So here it is. If your allegiance lies elsewhere you might want to look at  Introduction   Part 2  Royalist coat colours Part 3  Scots coat colours Part 3B ...