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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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By 1901 there were 230,000 volunteers, augmented by the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery Volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry.
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry.
When London needed yeomanry, police, militia or regiments to suppress the United Irishmen, the Fenians or the IRA, Orangemen were there.
He seems to be a captain of some sort, a yeomanry captain by the look of him.
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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