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Fencibles

During the American Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, military forces raised in the UK and in North America, where they were known as ‘the Royal Fencible Americans’. They were modelled on the regular army in organization, but, like the militia, were not liable for foreign service.



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Raised to battalion status as a fencible regiment of the regular British Army, the unit was designated as the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencible Regiment, or more popularly as the Glengarry Light Infantry, or simply, the Glengarrys.
The Glengarry Light Infantry: 1812-1816 by Grodzinski, John R. / The Canadian Army Journal
In a case of 1798 Jane Aitken was also unsuccessful in proving that she was the wife, and not the mistress, of John Smith Esquire, a major in the Norfolk fencible cavalry.
"NO UNSUITABLE MATCH": DEFINING RANK IN EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY ... by Leneman, Leah / Journal of Social History
Father Macdonell offered to raise a Catholic corps, the Glengarry Fencible Regiment, under the command of Macdonell of Glengarry, with himself as chaplain.
Upper Canada and Bishop Alexander MacDonell: Catholic history pt4 by Murray Nicolson / Catholic Insight
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