Dillon's Regiment (France)
military unit
Dillon's Regiment (French: Régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite War. He was then killed at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.
Williamite War
Dillon's Regiment was first raised as part of the Irish Army in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon who was killed at the Battle of Aughrim. During the Williamite War the regiment went to France in April 1690 as part of Lord Mountcashel's Irish Brigade, in exchange for some French regiments amounting to 6,000 troops. After the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, the regiment remained in the service of the kings of France under its present name. It was next commanded in France by Theobald's younger son, Colonel Arthur Dillon, until 1733.
Jacobite rising of 1745
In November 1745, soldiers of Dillon's Regiment with other regiments of the Irish Brigade landed in Montrose, Scotland, in support of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobite uprising. Edward Dillon, 4th son of Count Arthur Dillon, had taken over as commander of the regiment after his brother James was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy.
The regiment was present during several battles of the uprising, including the Jacobite victories at Falkirk and Inverness. Major Nicholas Glasgow of Dillon's Regiment commanded the Jacobite forces when the Hanoverians were defeated at the battle of Keith.
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