#fencible cavalry

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The commander of her troop arranged for her honourable discharge and befriended her, as did other officers and some of the people of Carlisle.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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Wikipedia pages for regiments of the british army which have been around for a while are always like "his majesty's royal company of gun shooters are an amalgamation of three regiments all of which were established specifically to run up to the king of france and stick out their tongues mockingly at him in the 1600s and which were combined in the 1860s; their regimental museum is in arseington-on-pobb and they have a traditional rivalry with the royal company of armed pastry chefs which involves seeing who can do the most push ups while holding their breath underwater. their dress uniform is do you love the colour of the sky themed and they are third in the order of precedence after the horse artillery and before the monarch's personal bodyguard corgi artillery. they fought in every major conflict ever, in between which ummm maybe they were in ireland?" and then you google royal company of gun shooters ireland and it's like well they dropped 25 nuclear bombs on ballymena once and the past four consecutive leaders have killed themselves on live television rather than admit it but tjat's notimportant

[labuenosairesfrancaise]

OTTERSHAW PARK

The mansion

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Ottershaw Park. This is the 18th building for my English Collection.

I decorated most of the house ground floor, for reference.

The interiors:

History of the house: In 1784 Thomas Sewell died and ownership of Ottershaw Park passed to his son, Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, Lieutenant Colonel in the Surrey Fencible Cavalry. He sold it in 1796 to Edmund Boehm who improved the interior of the house and enlarged the estate by buying tracts of wasteland and allotments.

In about 1805 Boehm built, to the design of the eminent architect James Wyatt, two Grecian-style lodges at the new entrance to the estate from where a coach road ran to the mansion. The same architect may also have designed for Boehm the Gothic Chapel which originally served as a kitchen, bake house, dairy and pantry but was demolished in 1962.

Ottershaw Park was bought in 1819 by Major General Sir George Wood, a Lieutenant General in the Bengal Army. At this time the estate was largely self-supporting with stables, smithy, brew house, bake house, laundry, dairy, slaughter houses, ice house and two farms.

Sir George died in 1824 and the estate passed to his son, also named George, who in 1841 sold the property to Richard Crawshay who built a new bailiff’s house, farm buildings and brew house.

On Crawshay’s death in 1859 the estate was bought by Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke MP, who made a number of alterations to the mansion. He also gave the money and land for the building of Christchurch and the first village school.

The estate was later sold to Lawrence James Baker, a stockbroker and MP who sold it in 1910 to the millionaire, Friedrich Gustav Jonathan Eckstein. Eckstein demolished the old mansion and replaced it with the present building designed by Niven & Wigglesworth which is more magnificent and much larger.

During World War I Eckstein made the building available to the British Red Cross as an Auxiliary Home Hospital but soon after the war sold it to Miss Susan Dora Cecilia Schintz, the daughter of a Swiss nitrates millionaire. Miss Schintz lost most of her sizeable inheritance through gifts to charity and bad investments and finally had to sell the estate. Much of it was acquired by the Ottershaw Park Investment Company (OPIC) which planned to develop the rim of the estate for housing. In 1932 the mansion and central part of the park became Ottershaw College, a boarding school for boys which for a short time was very successful, but eventually became insolvent and finally closed at the outbreak of World War II.

During the war The Vacuum Oil Company leased the mansion as offices and laboratories. From 1940 much of the surrounding land was either ploughed for crops or grazed as part of the war effort and the woodland areas were used by the 19 Vehicle Reserve Depot (VRD) for storing vehicles.

The Vacuum Oil Company moved back to London at the end of 1947 and Surrey County Council established Ottershaw School which was opened in 1948. The school prospered until 1980 when it closed due to financial constraints.

In 1982 the developers DeltaHome converted the mansion and other buildings into the present residential estate.

Link: https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/runnymede/ottershaw/ottershaw_park_estate/

The garden:

More info: https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/runnymede/ottershaw/ottershaw_park_estate/

The floorplan:

This house fits a 64x64  lot, but I think you can make it a 50x40 if you lose part of the garden and the conservatories on each side.

Piano nobile furnished, the rest is up to your liking.

Hope you like it.

You will need the usual CC I use:

all Felixandre cc

all The Jim

SYB

Anachrosims

Regal Sims

King Falcon railing

The Golden Sanctuary

Cliffou

Dndr recolors

Harrie cc

Tuds

Lili's palace cc

Please enjoy, comment if you like the house and share pictures of your game!

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RRL continuity villain protagonist Charles in his yeoman uniform... raised en masse in Ireland in 1796, the yeomanry was smaller and more local than either the fencibles (forces raised for protection against invasion, whose members were typically exempt from overseas duties) or the militia (similar, but raised differently and with different officers among other things), meaning that Charles doesn't have to canonically belong to any real life corps and so I didn't have any real specific uniform of any real specific corps I had to stick to. I based his jacket on one of a yeomanry cavalry officer from Galway + other parts of his outfit on light cavalry yeomen from Waterford + I did not draw him in a hat because I wanted to work on developing how I draw his hair but he would be wearing one similar to the hat here if I had drawn it.

He is carrying a sabre and a flintlock carbine similar to the famous Brown Bess muskets but for the fact that the barrel is slightly different. Also note that if I hadn't wanted to draw his hair it would be long + powdered in the style typical of soldiers of the time.

[winsonsaw2003]

Looking For Descendants Of Lieutenant-General Richard Tolson (1746-1811) Bridekirk

Lt-Gen.Richard Tolson(1746-1811) married Dinniss Oram.His issue:-

i) Harriet Tolson(1769-?) married Thomas Holland Of Thorne (Captain in the Surrey Fencible Cavalry, 6 July 1769.).They had two sons.

ii) Louisa Christina Tolson(1774-1856) Unmarried.

iii) Richard Henry Tolson (1776-1807) married Jane Collins.His issue:-

ai) Jane-Dinniss Tolson(1799-1869)  married Richard Harcourt-Symons.Their issue:-

bi) Mary Louisa Symons(1820-1845) married Thomas George Symons.Their issue:-

ci)Richard Langton Symons(1842-1843).

bii)Harcourt Knight Symons(1821).

cii)Ada Mary Symons(1865-1950).

Please contact me at - winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

[demdread]

Francis “Frank” Johnson was a composer and a bandmaster. At one time, it was believed he was born in Martinique in the West Indies, but now records allege that he was actually born in Philadelphia. He first came to widespread public notice in 1818 when George Willig published Johnson’s Collection of New Cotillions. By 1819, Johnson was well-known in Philadelphia as the leader of a dance orchestra. He could play just about any instrument. including the bugle, keyed bugle, cornet, and violin. Johnson’s career flourished throughout the 1820s as he and his band performed at most of the major dance functions in Philadelphia, including dancing schools, balls, and private parties. His talents were also in demand from military regiments in the city. The Washington Guards Company Three Band (which later became The Washington Grays), the State Fencibles Regiment, and the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry all employed Johnson and his musicians. In 1824, Johnson’s reputation was further enhanced when he composed much of the music for the triumphal return to Philadelphia of Revolutionary War hero General Lafayette, who was traveling the United States to great public acclaim and celebration. However, Johnson’s career was never far from the ugliness of racism. White bands often refused to participate in parades when Johnson’s band was scheduled to appear, and when the band toured to St. Louis, Missouri, its members were arraigned, fined, and ordered from the state under laws prohibiting the entry of free Blacks. At the time of Johnson’s death in 1844, he had over 200 published pieces and many that went unpublished. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vyrvtlRJ4/?igshid=ffavoka6p2l4

[violetcrownchronicles]

Applause Hearty and the Enthusiasm Unbounded

15 MAY 1888. Austin Daily Statesman.

THE FIRST DAY. Splendid Drilling for State Prizes by State Companies. The Grandest Display of Fire Works Ever Seen in the South.

The drill week opened inauspiciously yesterday morning. Clouds were thickly strewn around the horizon and covered the heavens. Some rain fell, and discomfiture was endured for a while. But the storm was soon over, the sun came out, and while some mud on the drill grounds rendered walking unpleasant, yet the day closed gloriously and was by all pronounced a grand success. The great number of military companies entered for the different prizes made it necessary to commence the competitive drilling at the very early hour of 8:30. Three companies drilled in the morning and three in the afternoon. In the morning the companies were the Victoria Rifles, the Sealy Rifles and the Fort Worth Fencibles. In the afternoon the three were the Austin Greys, the Washington Rifles and the Dallas Rifles. All of these companies contested for the state infantry prizes and all of them put up excellent drills, the honors, perhaps, being in favor of the Sealy Rifles, Dallas Rifles and the Austin Greys. The judges were kept constantly at work and proved to be experts in that line. All three of them are courteous, elegant gentlemen, and have won the hearts of all who have met them and are connected with the management of the drill.

At 5 o’clock the call sounded for dress parade and the five regiments soon came marching on the grounds. It was a grand—an imposing sight. The troops, by regiments, came into position with clockwork precision. Every movement was quickly and perfectly executed. The United States band took part in the parade, but the United States troops did not participate last evening. This was through some misunderstanding of orders and not intentionally done. Hereafter the United States troops will always take part in the evening dress parades that will begin at 5 o’clock and close at 6:30. But without these troops yesterday fully 1.500 soldiers of our state militia took part in the parade. General Stoddard was, of course, in charge, and Adjutant-General King received the review. To-day and from this on there will be over 2.000 troops in the dress parade, and this will include 200 of Uncle Sam’s cavalry. Never in the history of Texas have there been such splendid and magnificent parades as will be seen on the encampment grounds for the rest of this week. It will be worth double the price of admission simply to see these reviews without counting the excellent competitive drilling that is constantly going on. All the companies that have been drilled either in the competitive drills or in short exhibitions show remarkable improvement upon all previous work done by them. The state militia for members and excellence in military proflency to-day ranks far ahead of the militia of any state in the Union.

After the dress parade several companies gave practice exhibitions, and notable among these were the famous Houston Light Guard and the San Antonio Rifles.

THE FIRE WORKS.

Fully eight thousand people were on the grounds last night to witness the wonderful fire works exhibition, given by that great artist, James Pain, of London. To say that all were delighted with the exhibition is to but poorly describe the enthusiasm of the immense throng of people. From the time the monster balloon went skyward with its changing pendant light until the closing scene of a flight of two hundred interlacing rockets, the applause was hearty and the enthusiasm unbounded. Rockets were shot in midair and bursting threw a flood of different colored balls of fire that streamed the heavens, serpents hissed, parachutes of Lilliputian size hovered in the air and the set devices of strange and grotesque design held the audience spell bound.  The Texas seal and the state capitol building shone out resplendent and were indeed wonderful pieces of mechanism. Taken as a whole the exhibition was the most marvelous display of fireworks ever witnessed in the south, and lucky will those be who having missed it last night avail themselves Saturday night of the opportunity of seeing the second exhibition given by this skilled London expert. New devices have been chosen for that night, and the display will be even grander than it was last night.

DRILL NOTES.

The rain soaked the drill grounds yesterday morning, but during the afternoon it was in due condition.

Uncle Sam’s officers are a courteous, gentlemanly set of soldiers.

General Stoddard and staff are carrying out things well and are very popular.

The Sealy Rifles put up a splendid drill yesterday.

The Montgomery True Blues, of Montgomery, Ala. arrived here yesterday afternoon. The boys, though somewhat weary from their long ride, were in fine trim. They express themselves perfectly satisfied with their quarters, and thank the management for their convenient location. Of course some few little things remained to be done, which the men, like old veterans, immediately set about, and are now, at this writing, comfortably, ready for visitors and business.

[gobrandrootweb]

Identification of Finds • Re: Rare Roxburgh yeomanry button?

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Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:47 pm

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Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:32 pm

I do like that, and its in such good condition. Like you I could not find any examples of a Roxburghshire Yeomanry badge or button online. The site Littleboot gave is excellent, but does not contain this button as far as I can see. I am a member of The British and Commonwealth Military Badge Forum http://ift.tt/2xbPKJv (which I joined to help research a button I found), I did a search on there and again no reference to the Roxburghshire Yeomanry. If you are still stuck I could post this button on there for you. Evan

Hi Evan Thanks for your time That would be brilliant and much appreciated, I'm struggling to even pin down a dis-bandment year for the Roxburgh yeomanry. If you wouldn't mind doing that- Thank you. Rory

Rory, I have posted the button on the badge forum (it has a large button section) and will let you know if I get any response. It is not the easiest unit to find out about is it But I did find the following on an archive page http://archive.fo/EMlWz which had been saved from http://ift.tt/2g8kHbT The County Yeomanry Regiments --------------------------------------- Angus (Forfar) 1831 - ? The Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick’s Own) The Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry 1797 – 1827 Clackmananshire 1818 - ? Dumfriesshire 1798 – 1820s Dumbartonshire 1803 - ? The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry The Lovat Scouts Kirkudbrightshire 1803 – 1826 The Lanarkshire Yeomanry The Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry East Lothian (Haddington) (redesignated L&B Horse in 1908) The Lothians and Border Horse West Lothian (Linlithgow) 1803 – 1827 The Royla Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry 1800 – 1828 The Peeblesshire Yeomanry Cavalry 1803 – 1827 The Scottish Horse Renfrewshire 1795 – 1839 The Roxburghshire Yeomanry Light Dragoons 1797 – 1828 The Selkirkshire Yeomanry Light Dragoons The Stirlingshire Yeomanry Cavalry But this date does not initially appear to tie in with that type of button (unless it was a very early one at just prior to the unit disbanding). However all the other items I have quickly looked at seem to agree with the same dates, and the item below confirms when it was formed. "Sir Robert Pringle, third baronet of Stitchell, married Katherine, eldest daughter of James Pringle of Torwoodlee, and died at the age of 88. His son, Sir James, fourth baronet, served many years as an officer in the army, first in the fusiliers, and afterwards in the 59th regiment, which he commanded. Subsequently he was colonel of the Southern fencibles, and for a short time commanded the Roxburghshire yeomanry cavalry, after that corps was raised in 1797." Evan

Statistics: Posted by Saffron — Tue Oct 03, 2017 1:19 pm

Identification of Finds • Re: Rare Roxburgh yeomanry button? published first on http://ift.tt/2vLpIR5

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I think donal is definitely infantry, possibly the 83rd regiment of foot (one of two which was eventually formed into the royal ulster rifles in the 1880s) because they fought extensively in the peninsular war, which is where donal canonically lost his eye. it was a dublin regiment though so idk. I think nevin is just going to be in the milita/fencibles/whatever because that would explain why the other characters view him as a traitor (joined the protestant force for oppressing the catholic peasantry. after converting 🖕). devlin (new character) might actually be cavalry... possibly in the 9th light dragoons because they also saw action in the napoleonic wars but seemingly not quite as much as the 83rd foot. idk idk this is so stressful and really just so I can be neurotic about drawing them in the "right" uniform

Hrrng shuffling the military characters in tng around and figuring out which regiments they would be in

[violetcrownchronicles]

Military Companies and Bands

9 MAY 1888. Austin Daily Statesman.

THE ENTRIES For the Great Military Drill and Musical Celebration.

The following are the entries of military companies and bands of music for the military and band prizes at the grand encampment. They embrace thirty-three infantry companies, five artillery companies, two cavalry companies, four zonave companies and ten bands of music.

INFANTRY.

Dallas Light Guard.

Dallas Rifles.

Sealey Rifles, Galveston.

Washington Guards, Galveston.

Belknap Rifles, San Antonio.

Johnston Guards, Hempstead.

Fayette Light Guard, La Grange.

Light Infantry, Waco.

Fannin Guard, Bonham.

Victoria Rifles.

Terrell Rifles.

Stone Fort Rifles. Nacagdoches.

Robert E. Lee Rifles, Patterson.

Maxey Rifles, Paris.

Lee Guards, Giddings.

Houston Light Guard.

Ireland Greys, Brackettsville.

Fort Worth Fencibles.

Colorado Guards.

Austin Greys.

Texas Rifles, Austin.

Louisville Light Infantry.

Luling Greys.

Longview Rifles.

San Antonio Rifles.

Paris Light Guard.

Bowie Guards, Texarkana.

Navasota Guards.

True Blues, Montgomery, Ala.

Brenham Light Guard.

Louisiana Rifles.

Atlanta Rifles, Georgia.

Lomax Rifles, Mobile Ala.

ARTILLERY.

Galveston Artillery.

Dallas Rifle Company.

Louisiana Field Artillery, Battery B, New Orleans.

Brenham Light Artillery.

Washington Artillery, New Orleans.

CAVALRY.

Rutherford Rangers, Houston.

Capital City Cavalry Company.

ZOUAVES.

Gaston Cadet Zouaves, Dallas, Texas.

Merchant Zouaves, Memphis, Tennessee.

Walsh Zouaves, St. Louis, Missouri.

Chicago Zouaves.

BANDS OF MUSIC.

Petit’s Grand Military Band, Galveston.

The Itasca Band.

First Regimental Band, Orange.

Light Guard Band, Marshall.

Sarg Saunders’ Military Band, Belton.

Douglass Rifle Band, Tyler.

Anderson Cornet Band, Mineola.

Fort Worth Fire Department Band.

Corsicana Electric Band.

The C. C. Jeffries’ Band, Jacksonville, Illinois.

Besides the above bands of music, there will be Gilmore’s wonderful band of sixty-five pieces, a Mexican band of fifty pieces from the City of Mexico, sent by the Mexican government and reported to be the very best band in the City of Mexico. There will also be on hand the Nineteenth United States infantry band from the military post of San Antonio.

There will be not less than thirty thoroughbred Texas cow boys enter for the cow boy prizes.

A more splendid and brilliant showing of military companies and bands of music has never before been made at any celebration in this country.

DECORATIONS.

Every store in the city, especially on the Avenue and Pecan street, should by all means be decorated. Never in the life time of any business man in Austin will he have such an opportunity of exhibiting his enterprise and public spirit to such good purpose.

PROSPECTS.

The prospects for the entire success of the celebration on the grandest and most colossal scale is now an assured fact. Every committeeman, and, indeed, every citizen of Austin is expected to do his full duty from now till the close of the celebration. After it is all over it will be too late. Do it now. Help take care of the people and treat them all kindly and hospitably. Give your entire support to the able bureau of public comfort. Open your houses and lodge and feed the people—the thousands upon thousands of strangers who are coming.

J. T. DICKINSON, Secretary.