How To Use Yeomanry In A Sentence
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.
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The yeomanry were a particular kind of cavalry.
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The old Yeomanry guidon and uniforms are displayed in the museum there.
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The vile practice of snuff-dipping prevails sometimes also among the wives and daughters of the Yeomanry, and even occasionally among otherwise intelligent members of the Southern Middle
Social relations in our Southern States,
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In the northern western corner of the county we have Hacketstown, the scene of two desperate engagements between the insurgents and the yeomanry in 1798.
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Magistrates from the city claimed the rally was the start of a revolution, and unleashed the yeomanry on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, butchering 11 people and leaving over 400 wounded.
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Mr. Baring is at his yeomanry, so we are quite alone.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
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I saw enough to conclude, that Ancennis was not without the characteristic French elegance; and I must once for all say, that the manners of Marmontel are founded in nature, and that the daughters of the yeomanry and humbler farmers in France have an elegance, a vivacity, and a pleasantry, which is no where to be found out of France.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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Essentially, the White Yeomanry Economy is a kind of particular transition between the Petty Peasant Economy and the Agricultural Commodity Economy.
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A government yeomanry corps had also been raised in 1796.
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The Northamptonshire Yeomanry was now launched forward again to exploit this success, only to run into Peiper's Panthers and more StuG IIIs in hull-down firing positions.
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They did not claim to be victims; they presented as a rugged, stoical, independent, self-reliant yeomanry.
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The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!
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Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo.
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Others quickly followed, and in 1794 we find a regiment was raised in Forfar called the Forfar Yeomanry or Angus
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
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Beyond sitting in both Houses of Parliament, Willoughby fulfilled his hereditary responsibilities as an enthusiastic member of the Warwickshire Yeomanry.
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The Wiltshire Yeomanry, the oldest yeomanry unit in the British Army, paraded through Devizes on Sunday to celebrate ten years since it was granted the Freedom of the Town.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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At this stage a party of yeomanry opened fire and when the firing ceased 14 people, including a married woman and two boys (one the son of a yeoman) were shot dead.
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He had been Lord Marchmain's servant in the yeomanry.
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The freemen were the inhabitants of chartered towns, and in some countries the yeomanry, or small farmers, who did not hold their lands by a regular feudal tenure.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.
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In Britain, regulars and the part-time yeomanry, though placed at the disposal of local magistrates, disgraced themselves by firing on the crowds at Peterloo in 1819 and at Queen Caroline's funeral in 1821.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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They were wed by special dispensation at St Mary's Church in Shrewton on Monday afternoon in a ceremony performed by Royal Yeomanry padre Simon Bloxam-Rose.
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By 1901 there were 230,000 volunteers, augmented by the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery Volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry.
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The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
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Boards of highly paid, bonus-rich directors seem to be bunkered down behind a dithering yeomanry of press officers and media advisers as the regulatory cavalry charges in.
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The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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Such were the sixty thousand trade unionists who met in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in August 1819 and were greeted by the yeomanry, who charged at them with sabres, killing 11 and wounding around four hundred.
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The Royal Yeomanry band played the Regimental Anthem as we all marched along with the Squadron's guidon, or colours, swords and guns with fixed bayonets.