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What is a yeomanry?

What is a yeomanry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
  2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
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The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
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.
He seems to be a captain of some sort, a yeomanry captain by the look of him.
This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry.
The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.

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