yeomanry n. Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... ˈyōmǝnrē n. historical a volunteer cavalry force raised from men who held and cultivated small landed estates ( 1794–1908...
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... . A force of volunteer cavalrymen, formed on a county basis, and first embodied in 1794 to meet the challenge of the French Revolution. They were not under any obligation to serve outside the kingdom and during the Boer war a special force of Imperial Yeomanry was raised. Despite regular training, discipline was not always good. The Irish Yeomanry, raised in 1796 , was almost exclusively protestant and put down the 1798 rising with great severity. The Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry got into difficulties in 1819 trying to disperse the crowd at...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
... . The local volunteer force of the Victorian and Edwardian era, who were mounted on their own horses and were therefore distinct from the foot soldiers of the militia...
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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... The local volunteer force of the Victorian and Edwardian era, who were mounted on their own horses and were therefore distinct from the foot soldiers of the militia...
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The Oxford Companion to Military History
...Army in 1921 , some yeomanry regiments were permitted to keep their horses, while others were obliged to convert to signals or artillery. Called up again in 1939 , several yeomanry regiments found themselves on horseback in Palestine, where they had been in 1917–18 . The mounted units converted to armour in 1941 , the Cheshire Yeomanry being the last to convert in 1942 . Armoured yeomanry equipped with Crusader, Grant, or Sherman tanks fought in the North Africa , Italian , and Normandy campaigns, often supported by yeomanry artillery regiments....
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
... , originally a part‐time local force raised in 1796 to combat the threat posed by the revolutionary war and the United Irish and Defender movements. By 1797 30,000 men had been enrolled. Although some Catholics were recruited, particularly in the south, the most enthusiastic recruitment was among Protestants, often in close association with the recently formed Orange Order , and the force quickly attracted a reputation for indiscipline and indiscriminate sectarian violence. After 1800 increased reliance on the yeomanry for the defence and...
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... A force of volunteer cavalrymen, formed on a county basis, and first embodied in 1794 to meet the challenge of the French Revolution. Despite regular training, discipline was not always good. The Irish Yeomanry, raised in 1796 , was almost exclusively protestant and put down the 1798 rising with great severity. The Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry got into difficulties in 1819 trying to disperse the crowd at Peterloo . The yeomanry was merged with the Volunteers in 1907 to form the Territorial Army...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • beery , bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie ( US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary • Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary • subsidiary • auxiliary , ciliary, domiciliary • apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery • justiciary • bestiary , vestiary • breviary • aviary • hosiery • diary , enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry • podiatry , psychiatry • dowry , floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery • brewery • jewellery ( US jewelry) • ...
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Policing Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...volunteer yeomanry—and could swear in as many special constables as they felt the occasion required. This remained the case throughout the period. Troops were used to suppress the *Gordon riots in 1780 ; troops tried to catch the *Luddites in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire in 1811–12 ; yeomanry and regulars charged into the crowd in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in 1819 , occasioning the *Peterloo massacre; troops and special constables confronted the Captain Swing agricultural protesters in 1830–1 ; and troops and yeomanry—with...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...watched the King review the volunteers in Hyde Park in 1803 . But the crowds were proportionately just as large in the provinces: 60,000 were said to have attended the Leeds ‘military festival’ in 1795 ; in Wiltshire 20,000 came to see colours presented to the local yeomanry regiment in 1798 . The sheer volume of counter-invasion propaganda, most of it directed at the lower orders, itself indicates the strength of the drive for mass mobilization. Moreover, the language and imagery of these broadsides were those of ‘total’ war; Napoleon was depicted...
Language Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...itself not on the ‘reputable custom’ which writers like Johnson and Campbell believed to be the highest form of language, but on the basis of ‘a more permanent and a far more philosophical language’ used by ‘rustics’. According to Wordsworth, these rustics, rather like Webster's yeomanry, were ‘less under the action of social vanity’ than their urban counterparts. Their language was more philosophical and permanent because they ‘hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived’. Tooke had argued that language...
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