Yeomanry Cavalry
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yeomanry-cavalry-216-202566
title:
Yeomanry Cavalry
text:
The Yeomanry Cavalry was the mounted component of the British Volunteer Corps, a military auxiliary established in the late 18th century amid fears of invasion and insurrection during the French Revolutionary Wars. A yeoman was a person of respectable standing, one social rank below a gentleman, and the yeomanry was initially a rural, county-based force. Members were required to provide their own horses and were recruited mainly from landholders and tenant farmers, though the middle class also f
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
British volunteer military force
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomanry_Cavalry
date created:
2017-12-27T18:37:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T20:10:21Z
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13
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