Yeomanry

In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of England was high, with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to maximise the country's defences, a number of volunteer regiments were raised in many counties by yeomen. These regiments became known as the Yeomanry.

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While this was certainly true in most cases it was also the fact that the new regiments were sometimes used to in support of the civil authority to fight rebellion as in the Irish rebellion or supress civil unrest — as in the Peterloo Massacre; so their equipping and maintainance by local landowners was by no means entirely altruistic in post-revolutionary, but pre-police, England and Ireland.

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Yeomanry Charge a Crowd Gathered in Manchester to Hear Speeches Supporting Parliamentary Reform