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YEOMANRY , the name given to the volunteer mounted troops of the home defence army of Great
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supply the quota in yeomanry, was stronger than the yeomanry at the peace of Amiens. At that peace, partly with a view to preserving internal order, partly because of the probable renewal of the war, the yeomanry was retained, although the provisional cavalry was disbanded. There was thus a nucleus for expansion when Napoleon
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supply and mobilization arrangements were purely regimental, and through all the war years most of the troops and squadrons were ready to take the field, with equipment, food and forage, complete at a day's notice. They were trained as light cavalry, and armed with sabre and pistol. But a few town corps had mounted riflemen, and several corps, both in town and country, had one or more dismounted troops, who were carried on vehicles similar to the " Expedition or Military Fly " pictured by Rowlandson.From the extinction of Chartism to the South African War the history of the yeomanry is uneventful. The strength of the force gradually sank to 1o,000. But when it became apparent that mounted troops would play a decisive part in the war against the Boers, the yeomanry again came to the front. Of its ro,000 serving officers and men, 3000 went to South Africa in newly formed battalions of " Imperial Yeomanry," armed and organized purely as mounted rifles, and to these were added over 32,000 fresh men, for whom the yeomanry organization at home and at the seat of war provided the cadres and training, while the home yeomanry not only filled up its gaps but expanded. In 1901 the yeomanry, now all styled " Imperial," was re-modelled; and the strength of regiments was equalized on a four- squadron
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