Definition of Trainband. Meaning of Trainband. Synonyms of Trainband

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Definition of Trainband

Trainband
Trainband Train"band`, n.; pl. Trainbands. A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. [Eng.] He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. --Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. --Cowper.

Meaning of Trainband from wikipedia

- Trainbands or Trained Bands were companies of militia in England or the Americas, first organized in the 16th century and dissolved in the 18th. The term...
- common in the American colonies, where they are normally referred to as Trainbands. Similar organisations include the Dutch Schutterij, and the Swiss militia...
- celebrations and activities such as military exercises of the town's trainband or militia. Many of the early colonists who migrated from England came...
- disparate groups, culminating in a 1645 episode involving the town's "trainband", when some Hingham settlers supported Eames, and others supported Bozoan...
- York in 1720. Joseph was Captain of the North Company, of the Norwalk Trainband. Grandfather of Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816), American military officer...
- promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the First Company of the Stratford Trainband when it was formed in 1672. A religious conflict erupted between Stratford's...
- diplomat; US Amb****ador to Haiti John B****ett (1652–1714), captain of the trainband; deputy to the General Court (legislature) of Connecticut Colony Lyman...
- magistrate at Fairfield, Connecticut in 1677 He was Ensign of the Fairfield trainband in April, 1690 and Capt. in Oct., 1695. He was Deputy Governor from 1708...
- Bentinck Strength 600, Jacobites and Loyalists of James II 280 Dutch horse and dragoons Reading militia, protestant trainbands Casualties and losses 12 Few...
- training of Elizabethan militias which maintained well trained units (trainbands) alongside less well trained and less well armed groups of militia. Another...