Service Under William III
It entered English service under King William III in 1689, and on 21 August defeated Jacobite forces at the Battle of Dunkeld, a turning point in the Jacobite rising of that year.
Dundee's Insurrection: Dunkeld (1689); War of the League of Augsburg: Landen (1693).
After the Treaty of Ryswick was signed in September 1697, Parliament responded to political unrest over the concept of a large standing army by voting to disband all the forces raised since 1680, and to support only a minimal force of ten thousand men. William responded to this by taking a number of regiments, including the Cameronians, onto the strength of the Dutch establishment, where they would not need to be supported by Parliament. They were returned to the English establishment in 1700.
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