Manx Fencibles
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- Name
- Manx Fencibles
- Description
- Defensive regiment raised on the Isle of Man in the 1790s during the Napoleonic Wars. Officered by Manx families, recruited from the parishes, trained on the Island's own ground. Not the British garrison — the Fencibles were Manx men serving in the Manx military tradition that predated the Revestment by centuries. Raised from an island that Parliament treated as a revenue line, from families living in the conditions the Revestment had created — collapsed economy, ruined harbours, sixpence-a-day wages. They volunteered anyway. Not out of loyalty to the Parliament that had done this to them, but out of something older: the habit of service woven into the Island's identity.
- Active Period
- 1790s–c.1815
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Crown Administration
- Type
- Military
- Fencible Regiment
- Defence
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 15