It was formed be men from the Tyneside area of England and even though it was called a Scottish brigade they accepted any nationality.

Old Andrew's purse and sword never left his side from the day he first strapped them on until he died on the faroff battlefield of Liitzen commanding one of Gustavus Adolphus' Scottish brigades.

The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century.

He entered Dutch service in the Dutch States Army during the Thirty Years' War fighting with the Scottish brigade until 1627.

One isolated Scottish brigade which had been at the right of their front line and consisted of the regiments of the Earl of Crawford-Lindsay and Viscount Maitland stood firm against Lucas, who launched three charges against them.

Behind them, Sergeant Major General Lumsden managed to re-form part of the allied centre, using two Scottish brigades from the second line which had stood fast.

By 1629 he was an experienced soldier and lieutenant-colonel of one of the three regiments of the Scottish brigade.

Between May 1975 and March 2013, the Scottish brigades were broadly based on the system of local government regions in use from 1975 to 1996.

Scottish brigades (1975-2013)