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Yeomanry logo #10101) Class 2) Small-landed proprietors 3) Social class 4) Socio-economic class 5) Yeomen collectively
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Yeomanry

Yeomanry logo #21000 Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Territorial Army, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments. Today, Yeomanry units may serve in a variety of different military roles. ==History== In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of the Kingdom of Great Britain was high, after the French Revolution and the rise o...
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Yeomanry logo #21002• (n.) A British volunteer cavalry force, growing out of a royal regiment of fox hunters raised by Yorkshire gentlemen in 1745 to fight the Pretender, Charles Edward. The members furnish their own horses, have fourteen days` annual camp training, and receive pay and allowance when on duty. In 1901 the name was altered to imperial yeomanry in r...
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Yeomanry logo #20418Militia usually led by members of local hierarchy with ranks often composed of tradesmen and shopkeepers.
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Yeomanry logo #20688English volunteer cavalry organized 1794, and incorporated into volunteer regiments which became first the Territorial Force 1908 and then the Territorial Army 1922. ...
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Yeomanry logo #20972Yeo'man·ry noun 1. The position or rank of a yeoman. [ Obsolete] 'His estate of yeomanry .' Chaucer. 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. « The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.» Bancroft. 3....
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Yeomanry logo #21252Volunteer British cavalry.
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Yeomanry logo #21217The Yeomanry were a volunteer cavalry force in the British army. They were originally formed in the 18th century for home defence and merged with the Territorial Force in 1907.
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yeomanry logo #20400[n] - class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land 2. [n] - a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army
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yeomanry logo #20974 noun class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
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yeomanry logo #21199yeomen collectively. · a British volunteer cavalry force, formed in 1761, originally composed largely of yeomen, that became part of the British Territorial Army in 1907.
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yeomanry logo #23665[Difficult words] class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
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yeomanry logo #23665[Obscure words] class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
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