Yeomanry
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Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units and sub-units in the British Army Reserve which are descended from volunteer cavalry regiments that now serve in a variety of different roles.
c. 1798 engraving of a London and Westminster Light Horse trooper
Hertfordshire Yeomanry in the 1890s
An 1804 review of yeomanry troops in Hyde Park, London.
Irish Rebellion of 1798
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The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United
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…reflecting the level of civil unrest in any particular region at any particular time. The Irish Yeomanry, which had played a major role in suppressing the rebellion of 1798, was completely disbanded in 1838. For the next thirty years, the Yeomanry Force was retained as a second line of support for the regular cavalry…
The leadership of the United Irishmen
In End of the Irish Invasion–or–the Destruction of the French Armada (1797), James Gillray caricatured the failure of Hoche's expedition.
"Pikeman" statue in Wexford Town
United Irishmen charge at Oulart Hill, 27 May 1798