Robert Munro, 18th Baron of Foulis

Being a minor, he was by dispensation and special warrant from James VI of Scotland, dated 8 January 1608, served heir male and provision to his father, all of the lands of Easter Fowlis.

The actions of this unit are well documented in the famous History of Mackay's Regiment written by his cousin Robert Monro of Obsdale, and published in 1637.

Munro of Foulis progressed quickly through the ranks, advancing to captain, then major and finally lieutenant colonel in Mackay's Scottish Regiment.

When Alexander Leslie arrived from Pomerania with more Scottish, Swedish and German volunteers in July, he was also awarded governorship of the city.

[4] A Munro officer proudly recorded that at the defense of Stralsund in 1628 one of his men by the name of Mac-Weattiche, "did prove as valiant as a sword, fearing nothing but discredit".

In July 1631, Robert Munro of Foulis, with his own regiment alone, stormed and took possession of the fortified castle of Bloc in Mecklenburg, while en route to join the Swedish army at Werben.

[2] Sir James Ramsay was in command of the Scottish vanguard, and then it was on 7 September "after we had in the early morning, as the larke begunne to peep commended ourselbes and the event of the day to God," that the great battle commenced.

Whilst the Imperial cavalry scattered the Saxons on the left wing, the Scottish stood firm, firing for the first time in platoons.

[7] Robert Munro's successful military career soon came to an end when during one of the many skirmishes of the Thirty Years' War he was wounded in the right foot by a musket ball while crossing the Upper Danube river with Swedish troops.

[2] In Ulm, Sir Patrick Ruthven was Governor and Robert Munro had lived in the house of a barber and surgeon called Michael Rietmuller.

[8] This concur's with 19th century historian Alexander Mackintosh-Shaw's account that Lachlan Mor Mackintosh's daughter, Marjory, married Munro of Foulis.