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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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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.
By 1901 there were 230,000 volunteers, augmented by the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery Volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry.
The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.

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