The Scots Guards, one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army, trace their origins to 1642, when the Marquis of Argyll raised a regiment to fight for the Scottish Covenanters. In essence, the Covenanters were fervent defenders of Presbyterian religious autonomy, shaping Scotland’s religious and political landscape before and during the unions of 1603 and 1707.This predates both the Union of the Crowns (1603), when James VI of Scotland became James I of England, and the Acts of Union (17