The Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Somerset in South West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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The 1st Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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The 2nd Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War...
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South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...
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Frederick North, Lord North (category Somerset Militia officers)
were largely Tory. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Somerset Militia on 23 June 1759 when it was embodied for fulltime service, and commanded...
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3rd Battalion (formerly 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 4th Battalion (formerly 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly...
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Thomas Lunsford (category Somerset Militia officers)
expedition the following year, Lunsford commanded a regiment raised from the Somerset Trained Bands. His regiment fought at the Battle of Newburn on 28 August...
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President, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort carried out a tour of inspection of the Welsh militia in 1684, when the Brecknockshire Militia consisted of...
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Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset. The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters...
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Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (25 December 1660 – 13 July 1698) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry...
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ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930. Lord Macaulay, The History...
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Robert Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
School. Boyle was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th (2nd Somerset Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, on 15 April 1882, and resigned his commission...
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Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn...
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John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, a post he held until his death. He was also a Recorder of Bridgwater. The East Devon Militia was again embodied, under...
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Alexander Popham (category Somerset Militia officers)
Temple in 1622. Popham was a prominent figure and Justice of the Peace in Somerset. In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in the Short...
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Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930....
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Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
1785. On 27 May 1787, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 1st Somerset Militia, (commanded by his father) and was promoted from captain-lieutenant...
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Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort KG (16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803) was an English courtier and politician. Styled the Marquess of Worcester from...
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John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
English peer and militia officer. Educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford, Hinton was commissioned a captain in the 1st Somerset Militia in 1801. His...
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John Pyne (category Somerset Militia officers)
War he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Paulet's Somerset Trained Band, the 800-strong force of local militia. However, Paulet was a committed Royalist and...
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John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (1585 – 20 March 1649), of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between...
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New Jersey Line (redirect from New Jersey militia)
Forman of New Jersey, who accepted. Forman had formerly been a New Jersey militia leader. Washington also offered command of an additional regiment to Oliver...
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Continental Regiment Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment Militia Burlington Militia Hunterdon Militia Middlesex Militia Monmouth Militia Somerset Militia...
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William Strode (of Barrington) (category Somerset Militia officers)
William Strode, Jr (11 January 1589, Shepton Mallet, Somerset – 20 December 1666, Barrington Court, Somerset) — called William Strode of Barrington to distinguish...
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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (category Somerset Militia officers)
during the Seven Years' War, he was commissioned as major of the 1st Somerset Militia, which was embodied for fulltime service in home defence on 3 July...
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Edward Rodney (category Somerset Militia officers)
1621 and 1642. Rodney was the son of Sir John Rodney of Rodney Stoke, Somerset, and his wife Jane Seymour, daughter of Sir Henry Seymour and niece of...
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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (died 29 August 1791), Colonel of the Somerset Militia, who married Mary Knight, 2nd daughter of Edward Knight of Wolverley...
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(Cork) 1st Somerset Militia (Taunton), 2nd Somerset Militia (Bath), Hereford Militia (Hereford) 2nd Brigade (Limerick) 1st Warwick Militia (Warwick),...
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Arthur Hopton (died 1607) (category Somerset Militia officers)
Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930, p. 3. Colin J. Brett, Crown revenues from Somerset and Dorset, 1605...
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