Battle of the Brig of Dee

Battle of the Brig of Dee
Part of First Bishops' War
Bridge of Dee, pictured in 1997
Date 18–19 June 1639 Location Bridge of Dee, Aberdeen 57°07′22″N 02°07′12″W / 57.12278°N 2.12000°W / 57.12278; -2.12000 Result Covenanter victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Covenanters
Commanders and leaders
Viscount Aboyne Lt-Colonel Johnstone	Earl of Montrose
Strength
100	2,300
Casualties and losses
14	14

The Battle of the Brig of Dee took place on 18–19 June 1639 at the Bridge of Dee in Scotland, and was the only serious military action of the First Bishops' War. It featured a Royalist force under James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne, opposed by Covenanters led by James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose, and resulted in a Covenanter victory.

The war formed part of a series of conflicts known collectively as the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, so-called because they also took place in England and Ireland. These include the Irish Confederate Wars, the First English Civil War, Second English Civil War, the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650-1652, and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.