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How to use yeomanry in a sentence

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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.
At this stage a party of yeomanry opened fire and when the firing ceased 14 people, including a married woman and two boys were shot dead.
The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.
When London needed yeomanry, police, militia or regiments to suppress the United Irishmen, the Fenians or the IRA, Orangemen were there.
Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo.
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.
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.
This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry.
The enclosing movement was attacked on various grounds. To its effects were attributed the disappearance of the yeomanry, using the words in the strict sense of farmer-owners.
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
He raised and was responsible for the efficiency of the local militia units of the county, and afterwards of the yeomanry, and volunteers.
Despite assistance from France the rebellion was put down by British and Irish government and yeomanry forces.
The older Robin Hood ballads are also minstrel propaganda, glorifying the virtues of the yeomanry, the small independent landowners of preindustrial England.
British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.
The reforms reorganised the militia, yeomanry and volunteers into the new Territorial Army.
The success of the Cheshire yeomanry, under the command of Richard Cholmeley, led to his later appointment as Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Unable to consider a military career, Scott enlisted as a volunteer in the 1st Lothian and Border yeomanry.
The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.
The old Yeomanry guidon and uniforms are displayed in the museum there.
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He seems to be a captain of some sort, a yeomanry captain by the look of him.
Now, can you see, Cripplestraw, any way at all that the yeomanry can be put in front?
You should come to some of our yeomanry sprees in Casterbridge or Shottsford-Forum.
The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
The destruction of the Roman yeomanry proceeded far less rapidly than the destruction of the American farmers and small capitalists.
In a very short time we were able to use the yeomanry in the front line.
Within an hour Captain Martin had returned with a troop of yeomanry.
The yeomanry had risen upon the invaders and driven them back.
Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period.
The Yeomanry did a lot of useful work, and are as eager for fight as a bull ant on a hot plate.
So we went on for a few of those dark days, Raffles very glum and grim, till one fine morning the Yeomanry idea put new heart into us all.
He was an officer in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and chairman of the Conservative Association.
The Regiment was again disbanded in 1838, the same fate overcoming the stirlingshire Yeomanry.
A few months after his marriage he accepted an adjutancy in the Northumberland Yeomanry.
O'Connell begins his public career in the Yeomanry called out to put down the insurrectionary movement of Emmet.
The brutality of the police, equalled in ferociousness the massacre of the Yeomanry Cavalry.
The Imperial Yeomanry were a volunteer light cavalry unit formed during the first years of the 20th century and were the forerunner of the Territorial Army.
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