A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Name 



Manchester Volunteers 

 Lancaster „ 



Ulverston „ 



Liverpool ,, 



Warrington „ 

 Wigan Rifles . . . 

 Newton „ ... 



Trafford House Volunteers 

 Winwick „ 



Bolton le Moors „ 

 Preston „ 



Preston Riflemen . . . 

 Bury Rifle Volunteers 



Radcliffe „ 



Ashton „ 



(near Warrington) 

 Wigan Volunteers 

 Bold „ 



Hale „ 



Preston „ 



Manchester „ 



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Hulme ,, 



Pendleton ,, 

 Ashton-under-Lyne Volunteers 

 Medlock Vale Rifles . . 

 Oldham Volunteers 

 Heaton Norris Volunteers 

 Heaton House „ 



Swinton „ 



Preston Rifle „ 



Burton „ 



Commanded by 



Shakespeare Phillips, esq 

 John Bradshaw, e q. 

 T. Sunderland, esq. 

 Lieut.-Col. Earle 

 Lieut.-Col. Lyon 



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 Lieut.-Col. Claughton 



Lieut.-Col. Cooke . 



E. Hornby, esq. 



Lieut.-Col. Fletcher 



Lieut.-Col. Grimshaw 



(attached to Col. Hanson's) 



Capt. Yates 

 J. Bealey, esq. . . 

 Capt. Peel . . . 



Earl of Balcarres 

 Capt. Kidd . . . 

 J. Blackburn, esq. 

 Lieut.-Col. Watson . 

 Lieut.-Col. Silvester 



Major J. Pooley 

 J. D. Ashvi^orth 



J. Lees, esq. . 

 Capt. Dale 

 Earl of Wilton . 

 Stanley Bullock, esq. 

 J. Ainsworth, esq. 



Total 



Cavalry, 8 troops, 586 men 



Infantry, 176 companies, 13,710 „ 

 Artillery, 5 „ 560 „ 



Of the above the Royal Manchester and Salford Volunteers formed a 

 regiment of ten companies in all, 1,000 strong, which stayed a month at 

 Preston in 1804, and were reviewed by the duke of Gloucester in that year 

 at Manchester. 



From the fact that so many volunteers could be found to defend their 

 hearths and homes against possible invasion it must not be argued that at the 

 opening of the nineteenth century the people of Lancashire were possessed by 

 an aggressively military spirit. Far from it. They were peace-loving 

 almost to a man ; but though, like most Englishmen, their sobriety of 

 temper never provoked a quarrel, the Lancastrians were always ready to 

 abide the utmost consequences of any that was forced upon them. This 

 spirit was indeed in the course of the next hundred years to be put to the 

 test repeatedly. 



The nineteenth century was, in a sense, the most crucial period through 

 which the county has had to pass ; and darkly as it opened, its close beheld 

 Lancashire triumphant. It witnessed the long and difficult battle for political 

 liberty, a fight in which the indomitable spirit of the Lancashire people may 

 be said to have led the van. 



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