Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ba a sake kafa tsohuwar rundunar 'yan bindiga a Scotland ba a Maido da 1660. Bayan Union a shekara ta 1707, a lokacin Yaƙin Nasara na Mutanen Espanya, Majalisar Burtaniya ta zartar da doka a shekara ta 1708 don sake ba da rundunar 'yan bindigar Scotland. Koyaya, an hana Dokar izinin Royal saboda tsoron cewa sabon ƙarfin zai zama mara aminci (ana tsammanin tashin hankali na Jacobite a Scotland don tallafawa rundunar sojojin Faransa da ke cikin teku a lokacin). A lokacin tashin hankali na Jacobite mai tsanani na 1745, Gwamna mai goyon bayan Gwamna John Campbell na Mamore (daga baya 4th Duke na Argyll) ya tayar da Campbell na Argyll Militia, wanda ya kasance a yakin Falkirk Muir
, da Skirmish na Keith, da kuma yakin Culloden.