Examples of 'yeomanry' in a sentence
Meaning of "yeomanry"
yeomanry (noun) - a collective term for the class of small freeholders who cultivate their own land, or a group of yeomen or middle-class citizens who serve as part-time soldiers or provide other services for the government
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- A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
- A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
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The yeomanry lineage was discontinued at that time.
I will find you a place with the yeomanry.
The yeomanry fought in several theatres of war.
Such localities are usually inhabited by yeomanry drobna szlachta.
The yeomanry too were driven from the summit.
I have joined the imperial yeomanry.
And the yeomanry freehold farmers.
I have heard he commands a yeomanry.
Bossed my yeomanry for me till your fellow came up.
Have joined imperial yeomanry.
The yeomanry have just left us.
They are not yeomanry.
The yeomanry had dismounted.
I am sent to bloody Yorkshire to command some bloody yeomanry.
Yeomanry losses were heavy.
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Powis had long service in the yeomanry within Shropshire.
Members of the yeomanry were not obliged to serve overseas without their individual consent.
This attack was also repelled by yeomanry rifle and Hotchkiss fire.
The Yeomanry has enjoyed a more peaceful existence since that time.
Soon afterwards a small Ottoman patrol fired on the yeomanry and retired.
Before the war the Yeomanry existed only to protect the homeland.
Whither you are to go to command the Scarsdale Yeomanry.
Cawley was a lieutenant in the Yeomanry serving in Palestine.
He held the rank of captain in the Cheshire Yeomanry.
Yeomanry are part of the reserve for the British Army.
Johnson was content in the Yeomanry.
The Imperial Yeomanry were trained and equipped as mounted infantry.
He served as a captain in the Volunteer Horse precursor of the yeomanry.
The modern Yeomanry is located in the southwestern portion of the Flanaess.
I am sure I can add to the Yeomanry if requisite.
He was a Lieutenant in the service of the Cheshire Yeomanry.
He commanded the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry for a decade.
While at Malvern he was also chaplain of the Worcestershire Yeomanry.
Scarsdale Yeomanry trains hard.
He served as captain in the Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
The Yeomanry is here.
This warrant officially created the Imperial Yeomanry.
In the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry commander is a rank equivalent to major.
There is also a museum of the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry.
Today, Yeomanry units serve in a variety of different military roles.
He served in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry.
The reforms reorganised the militia, yeomanry and volunteers into the new Territorial Force.
He was a councillor on Rutland County Council and commanded a squadron of the Leicestershire Yeomanry.
The yeomanry had dismounted . Some were easing their horses'girths and some were wiping their sabres.
This necessitated the disbandment of the Yeomanry Mounted Division.
As a yeomanry colonel, he did not support conscription, which General Henry Wilson favoured.
Ships of Cossack yeomanry.
While attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce Armoured Car for their use.
We have military ID photographs from his time with the Warwickshire Yeomanry.
George Wickham. Bossed my yeomanry for me till your fellow came up.
