fencibles

He afterwards raised a regiment of 'fencibles' which served in Ireland in

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.

Ulysses 2003

The Welsh peasantry, animated by the gentry, armed with scythes, sickles, and pitchforks, marched forth to meet the invaders; and Lord Cawdor assembled a mixed force of seven hundred militia, fencibles, and yeoman cavalry.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Beachy-Head: together with the entire flotilla of gun-brigs, fire-ships, bomb-ketches, and vessels of every other description; and all the sea-fencibles embodied within the same district, with all the boats, vessels, and other floating defences, on board of which they might be required to act.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

Indies, and other colonies; besides fencibles and volunteers, foreign troops in British pay, and embodied French emigrants.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Seventy thousand seamen were voted, and it was agreed to maintain 67,676 effective men, beside the militia of England, two regiments of fencibles in Scotland, the provincial troops in America, and 67,167 German auxiliaries.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Major Handcock, however, determined to attempt the capture of the guns, and a detachment of regulars, supported by a company of voltigeurs and fencibles, was ordered to charge.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

His calling, with the interval of a brief military service in the fencibles, was the tending of cattle, in the several gradations of herd, drover, and bo-man, or responsible cow-keeper -- the last, in his pastoral county, a charge of trust and respectability.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

I find from a perusal of the english papers, that fencibles are raising in all parts of the country, and every precaution taking, to put the kingdom in the best state of defence, in case of an invasion.

Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

He carried a musket, however, in his lordship's fencibles; which led him to take part, much against his inclination, in the Whig ranks at the battle of

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various