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  2. Royal Regiment of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...

  3. Scottish regiment - Wikipedia

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    Scottish regiments are military units which at some point during their existence have had a form of connection with Scotland. Though the military history of Scotland dates back to the era of classical antiquity , the first organised Scottish military units were formed in the Middle Ages , mostly to serve in the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the ...

  4. Scots Guards - Wikipedia

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    After the Restoration of Charles II, the Earl of Linlithgow received a commission dated 23 November 1660 to raise a regiment which was called The Scottish Regiment of Footguards. [ 4 ] It served in the 1679 Covenanter rising of 1679, as well as Argyll's Rising in June 1685, after which it was expanded to two battalions. [ 5 ]

  5. List of battalions of the Royal Scots - Wikipedia

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    The regiment's territorial components formed duplicate second and third line battalions. As an example, the battalions of the 4th King's were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. Many battalions of the Royal Scots were formed as part of Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener's appeal for an initial 100,000 men volunteers in ...

  6. Armed forces in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Soldiers of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery at Edinburgh Castle Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo The Atholl Highlanders on parade in 2017. Since the passing of the Treaty of Union in 1707 which unified the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England to the create the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scottish armed forces were merged with the English armed forces and remain part of the overall ...

  7. Scots Army - Wikipedia

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    At the Restoration in 1660 the Privy Council of Scotland established a force of several infantry regiments and a few troops of horse to act as a standing army.These included a troop of Life Guards, a second troop of which was raised in 1661, Lieutenant-General William Drummond's Regiment of Horse, five independent troops of horse, a regiment of Foot Guards, later known as the Scots Guards and ...

  8. History of the Scots Guards (1946–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Scots Guards are a regiment of the British Army. The regiment takes part in numerous events, most notably the Beating Retreat, Changing of the Guard, Queen's Birthday Parade, Remembrance Sunday and State Visits. The Guards' regiments ceremonial uniforms differ from each other only slightly, the differentiations being in the tunic and the ...

  9. List of Scottish flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Church of Scotland: The flag of Scotland with the burning bush in the centre. Flag of the Diocese of Brechin: A banner of the Diocese's coat of arms. Flag of the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement: The flag of Scotland on the left side of a red flag, with a golden Triquetra knot in the centre of the red section.