responsibility for the London Trained Bands was shifted from the livery companies to the Wards of the City of London. In theory the Trained Bands met for a day's...
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regular army was formed from the Trained Bands in the event of war, though the inability or unwillingness of many of the bands to serve outside of their home...
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Trained Bands were a part-time military force established in 1572, recruited from residents of the City of Westminster. As part of the larger London Trained...
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The Surrey Trained Bands were a part-time military force in Surrey in the Home counties of England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Surrey...
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of the trained bands in April, when the Lord Lieutenant of Kent reported 10,866 able-bodied men, of whom 2953 were trained. The trained bands were put...
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The Devon Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Devonshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
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The Somerset Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the county of Somerset in South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as...
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The Norfolk Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the...
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nationally, opening concerts for bands such as Barenaked Ladies, Hootie & the Blowfish, Cracker and Counting Crows. Train is the band's eponymous debut album. Initially...
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The London Militia were the part-time military forces in the City of London. From their formal organisation as the London Trained Bands in 1559 they were...
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The Suffolk Trained Bands were a part-time auxiliary military force in the county of Suffolk on the East Coast of England from 1558 until they were reconstituted...
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The Dorset Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Dorsetshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
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"Last Train to London" is a song from the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), the fifth track from their album Discovery. The song was released...
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as the slow march of the London Trained Bands in the 16th and 17th centuries. Later the 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, which claimed descent...
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moved forward to press the attack, but were forced to halt by the London Trained Bands. With night falling, the battle ended, and both exhausted armies...
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Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia (redirect from Sir Francis Thornhagh's Regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands)
Midland county of Nottinghamshire. From its formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until its final service in the Special Reserve, the Militia...
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Philip Skippon (category London Trained Bands officers)
to London to take up this command. With civil war looming, on 10 January 1642 he was made major-general and commander of the City of London's Trained Bands...
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Royal London Militia was an auxiliary regiment organised in the City of London during the French Revolutionary War from the former London Trained Bands. It...
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Battle of Turnham Green (category Battles and military actions in London)
November, Essex's army, with the six regiments of London Trained Bands under Philip Skippon, and other London citizenry, assembled as an army of about 24,000...
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Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet (category London Trained Bands officers)
in 1642, and he commanded a London brigade (his own regiment, together with the Green Auxiliary Trained Bands of London and the Tower Hamlets Auxiliaries...
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on Baring Road, Grove Park, London SE12 0BH. The regiment claimed descent from the Yellow Regiment, London Trained Bands, the Temple Bar and St Paul's...
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Royal Merioneth Rifles (redirect from Merioneth Trained Bands)
impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man, so after 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands, who were mustered...
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Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington...
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sent to dislodge them were beaten back and a detachment from the London Trained Bands under the Lord Mayor, Major General Sir Richard Browne, attacked...
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London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 8,866,180 in 2022. The wider metropolitan area is the...
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William Hedges (colonial administrator) (category London Trained Bands officers)
of the Green Regiment, London Trained Bands, in 1697. Through his first marriage, Hedges had also aligned himself with London's dissenting Protestant movement...
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cabaret bands, only occasionally meeting the others for Gravy Train gigs. By the time we did Staircase to the Day, we were all playing in other bands. However...
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Surrey and possibly one in Edinburgh. He was also an ensign in the London Trained bands and when the First English Civil War began in August 1642, he served...
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Switzerland London Tourist Board, responsible for promotion of tourism in London London Trained Bands, organized militia in London from 1559 to 1794 London Transport...
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John Warner (Lord Mayor) (category London Trained Bands officers)
he was elected 311th Lord Mayor of London. Keith Roberts, London And Liberty: Ensigns of the London Trained Bands, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire: Partizan...
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