• The 'East Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Suffolk in East Anglia. First organised as one of two regiments in the...
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  • The Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Suffolk on the East Coast of England. From their formal organisation as Trained bands...
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  • The West Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Suffolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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    Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    appointed Colonel of the East Suffolk Militia, but on 24 May 1830 he transferred to the vacant colonelcy of the West Suffolk Militia, which his father and...
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    1st Battalion 2nd Battalion Militia 3rd (Militia) Battalion based in Bury St Edmunds, former West Suffolk Militia 4th (Militia) Battalion based in Ely, former...
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  • Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    fourteen years later. On 26 May 1803 he was appointed Colonel of the East Suffolk Militia, and continued in command until his death. Lord Cornwallis married...
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  • East Coast of England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Suffolk Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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  • This is a list of active and armed militia organizations in the United States. While the two largest militias are the Oath Keepers and the 3 Percenters...
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    of French invasion of South East England. The East Devons were brigaded with the East Suffolk Militia and Monmouth Militia. Each battalion had two small...
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  • Army. It later became a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment until its final disbandment in 1908. The English militia was descended from the Anglo-Saxon Fyrd...
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    Nathaniel Woodhull (category Militia generals in the American Revolution)
    Suffolk and Queen's County militia. In August 1776, on the eve of the Battle of Long Island, Woodhull's militia was detailed to drive livestock east to...
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    Gibbs was accorded a civic funeral and a band of the Scots Greys and East Suffolk Militia played the Dead March from Saul with their instruments draped in...
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  • The East Kent Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary regiment raised in Kent in South East England. From its formal...
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    the family was established and wealthy. He was a member of the Suffolk County Militia in the beginning of the American Revolution, and rose to the rank...
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    The Militia Artillery units of the United Kingdom and Colonies (including Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and...
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  • neighbourhood of St Stephen's Green. Together with the Bedfordshire and East Suffolk Militia the Worcestershires formed a brigade under the command of Major-General...
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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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    John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    Colonel of the disembodied East Suffolk Militia from 24 May 1830 to 1844, and as Lord Lieutenant and the Vice-Admiral of Suffolk, 1844–1886. On 26 May 1857...
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    The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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    and organising the militia, overseen by a sheriff. From Tudor times onwards a lord-lieutenant was appointed to oversee the militia, taking some of the...
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  • Norfolk Regiment, (formerly the West and East Norfolk Militia) and the 3rd (West Suffolk Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment at Great Yarmouth for annual...
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    amalgamated with the Suffolk Regiment, to become the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk); this later amalgamated with the 2nd East Anglian Regiment...
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    The 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was a peacetime infantry regiment that was activated for federal service in the Union army for three...
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    market and cathedral town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is best known for Bury St Edmunds Abbey...
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  • the militia were formed into brigades for their summer training. The Bedfordshires, together with the Derbyshires, East Hampshires, East Suffolks and...
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    Minutemen were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American...
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  • regular or "line" battalions and two militia battalions. In Ireland, there were to be two line and three militia battalions. This was done by renaming...
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    the East Anglian Brigade: 1st (Norfolk and Suffolk) Battalion from the 1st Battalion of the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) 2nd...
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  • The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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    The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts...
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