SIXTH, OR INNISKILLING REGIMENT
OF
DRAGOONS.
Sir Albert Cunningham.
Appointed 31st December, 1689.
Sir Albert Cunningham is represented by historians as a gentleman of great personal merit. He held a commission in the army in Ireland, and was appointed lieutenant-general of the Ordnance in that country; but he was removed from his appointment by King James II., for his stedfast adherence to the established institutions of his country. His cordial co-operation with the Inniskilling men in the defence of their civil and religious liberties, occasioned him to be commissioned by King William III. to raise from among their numbers a corps of dragoons, now the Sixth, or the Inniskilling Regiment. He evinced distinguished courage and ability at the head of his regiment in several battles and skirmishes in Ireland; and was killed by an Irish serjeant in King James's service, after having been taken prisoner at Coloony, near Sligo, in September, 1691, as narrated at [page 30], in the Record of the Sixth Dragoons.
Robert Echlin.
Appointed 30th December, 1691.