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Fencible

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Fen´ci`ble
a.1.Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense.
No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong.
- Spenser.
n.1.(Mil.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; - usually in the pl.
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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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