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Tranent, Scotland. Date. Tuesday, 29 August 1797. Target. Anti-conscription protesters. Perpetrators. Cinque Ports Light Dragoons. The Massacre of Tranent was an even which took place on 29 August 1797 in the town of Tranent, Scotland .
The confederation of Cinque Ports ( / sɪŋk pɔːrts /) [1] is a historic group of coastal towns in south-east England – predominantly in Kent and Sussex, with one outlier ( Brightlingsea) in Essex. [2] The name is Old French, meaning "five harbours", and alludes to the original five members ( Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich ).
When the Norfolk fencible light dragoons (sic) were inspected by General Johnson at Bury in August, 1794 they consisted of six troops. Cinque Ports Regiment [2] or CINQUE PORTS REGIMENT OF FENCIBLE LIGHT DRAGOONS: Colonel Robert, Lord Hawkesbury. Lieut-Col Addington: 1 May 1794: Early 1800
Lo- CalNameUniformCommanderSH [a]Highland dress. Facings yellow [b]SHHighland dress. Facings yellowColonel William Sutherland (1735-1766), ...SHArgyll, or Western Fencible Regiment or ...Highland dress. Facings yellowColonel Lord Frederick Campbell. [2] ...SLSouth Fencible Regiment or Southern ...Facings greenColonel Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of ...In 1797 the then Lord Hawkesbury was the cavalry commander of the Cinque Ports Light Dragoons who ran amok following a protest against the Militia Act at Tranent in East Lothian, twelve civilians being killed.
The Fencible Infantry ranged from 697 men for the Scottish Fencibles of 1793, to 589 men in 1797 with strengths of 588 men and 688 men, depending on the regiment, for 1799. Some of the larger regiments had over 1,000 men. Again the smaller corps had establishments ranging from 110 to 340 men. In 1800, there were to be 31 Fencible Regiments of ...
The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century, when the title was Keeper of the Coast, but may be older. The Lord Warden was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five ( cinque in Norman French) port towns on the southeast coast of England that ...
The Cinque Ports (pronounced ‘sink ports’) were five major ports on the south-east coast of England: Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney and Hastings. Before the Norman Conquest, they had formed a powerful trading and defensive alliance, enjoying rights of self-government in return for the Crown’s use of their ships and men each year.
