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State of the Volunteers of Devonshire in the year 1803

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol 11 (1879), pp. 168-179.

by

A.H.A. Hamilton

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Militia Act of 1757 established militia regiments for each county and required each parish to provide a number of able-bodied men, aged between 18 and 50 (reduced to 45 in 1762) for military training. Militia regiments served in Britain or Ireland but not overseas. During the French wars of 1793-1815, some other auxilliary troops, known as yeomanry (cavalry), volunteers or fencible infantry or cavalry were raised in each county. The records in Hamilton's paper were extracted from the Minutes for October 7th 1803 of the Committee of the Lieutenancy and Magistracy of the County of Devon for the Defence of the Realm during the French War. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the University of Michigan Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.