• The Dublin City Artillery Militia was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in Dublin, Ireland, from 1854 to 1909. The long-standing...
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    Antrim Artillery (8 btys) 3rd Brigade at Letterkenny – formerly Donegal Artillery (6 btys) 4th Brigade at Dublin – formerly Dublin City Artillery Militia (4...
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  • Antrim Artillery 3rd Brigade – formerly Donegal Artillery 4th Brigade – formerly Dublin City Artillery Militia 5th Brigade – formerly Galway Artillery Militia...
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  • into a militia artillery unit before being disbanded in 1909. Although there are scattered references to town guards in 1584, no organised militia existed...
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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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    for family dependants. Unlike the army, the militia had no cavalry or, until 1853, artillery. The militia was constitutionally separate from the army...
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    Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (category High sheriffs of Dublin City)
    to Viscount Iveagh. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Dublin City Artillery Militia in 1899. Elected to the Royal Society in 1906, he was two years...
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  • Artillery, were ordered to be on high alert in case of a French invasion. Early in 1795 the Irish government ordered an augmentation of the militia from...
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  • 24th among artillery militia units but the Royal Pembroke dropped to 31st. Trained Bands Militia (English) Militia (Great Britain) Militia (United Kingdom)...
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  • Bridge. In October and November the companies were concentrated at Dublin. The Irish Militia was augmented in April 1795, County Longford's quota being increased...
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  • The Galway Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in County Galway, Ireland, from 1854 to 1888. The long-standing...
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  • 1852 a new Militia Act was passed that revived the militia, and County Durham was ordered to provide 1096 men (or 2000 men including artillery). However...
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  • The Worcestershire Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Worcestershire. From their formal organisation as trained bands in...
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  • participants had to be guarded by the city militia and a stockade against "the mountain enemy". Medieval Dublin was a tightly knit place of around 5,000...
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  • Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (category Royal Garrison Artillery officers)
    Marianne Ashworth. He was a captain of the militia of the Dublin City Artillery branch of the Royal Garrison Artillery from November 1901, and resigned this...
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    Madras Fusiliers, two army regiments stationed in India, with militia units from Dublin and Kildare as part of the Childers Reforms. Both battalions of...
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    118th Field Artillery Regiment, traces its lineage to the 118th Field Artillery which was organized on April 18, 1751, in the Georgia Militia in the District...
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  • of about 600 men, mainly Dublin militia members, backed up by seven artillery pieces, and set out on a forced march to Dublin on 27 May. His twin objectives...
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    James Connolly (category Trade unionists from Dublin (city))
    in Dublin what he saw as a new means of striking toward the goal of a Workers' Republic. At the beginning of 1916, he committed the union's militia, the...
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    Royal Bermuda Regiment (category Royal Artillery)
    1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost entirely white Bermuda Rifles (titled the Bermuda...
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    entered the Army, commissioned in the Dublin City Artillery Militia in August 1878. Commissions in the Militia were often used as a stepping-stone to...
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    Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within...
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    escaped the siege or during battles outside the city, and by Richard Caswell's North Carolina militia. Receiving news of the surrender, Buford was ordered...
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    Siege of Kilkenny (category Kilkenny (city))
    fast north of Dublin capturing Drogheda, Belfast, and Carrickfergus. Concurrently, Cromwell attacked and captured the southeastern port cities of Wexford...
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    Rising in Dublin for 24 April. Roughly 1,200 Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army members took over the city centre. About 5,000 troops in the Dublin area were...
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    Robert Ross (British Army officer) (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    professional soldiers who quickly defeated a poorly organized American militia at the Battle of Bladensburg on 24 August; that evening, he led his troops...
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    Monmouthshire Militia, Royal Engineers 4th Siege Company, Royal Monmouthshire Militia, Royal Engineers 1st Siege Company, Royal Anglesey Militia, Royal Engineers...
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    by the police, army and local militias. In the aftermath, Fenian assassination circles were active in Cork and in Dublin and were responsible for shooting...
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    Alan Cunningham (category Military personnel from Dublin (city))
    taking a commission in the Royal Artillery in 1906. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Horse Artillery, and was awarded a Military Cross...
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    Own) The Drop-short Rifles – Royal Regiment of Artillery The Dubsters – a composite of 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers (formed...
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