The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday but the fighting there inflicted up to two thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

The rebel Volunteers were a minority faction among Irish nationalists and up to 200, 000 Irishmen were serving on the British side in the First World War.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

IRB members held officer rank in the Volunteers throughout the country and would take their orders from the Military Committee, not from MacNeill.

Though this was " fixed " at one level, another year passed before the Volunteers took an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic and its government, " throughout August 1920 ".

Volunteers from a number of countries, including the United States, and mission church workers also provide education, health, and development assistance throughout the country.

On 17 May the LDV achieved official legal status when the Privy Council issued the Defence ( Local Defence Volunteers ) Order in Council, and orders were issued from the War Office to regular Army headquarters throughout Britain explaining the status of LDV units ; volunteers would be divided into sections, platoons and companies but would not be paid and leaders of units would not hold commissions or have the power to command regular forces.

Volunteers for the fund sewed between 40, 000 and 60, 000 bags a month to hold soldiers ' valuables, totalling around five million throughout the war.

The rising nevertheless went forward in Dublin, and the RIC was sent to arrest well-known sympathizers throughout the country including, but not limited to, known members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Sinn Féin, and the Irish Volunteers.

Unionists, predominantly concentrated in Ulster, though also with significant numbers in Dublin and throughout the country, resisted the introduction of Home Rule and founded the Ulster Volunteers ( UVF )-a private army-to this end.

The Middlesex County Volunteers perform extensively throughout New England.

He served with the First Battalion of the US 18th Infantry Regiment throughout the war and was twice brevetted for gallant conduct, finishing the war as a lieutenant colonel of Volunteers.

Each year more than one hundred retirees known as " Winter Volunteers " descend on campus to provide much appreciated help throughout the winter months.

Volunteers participate in a range of activities and interests in helping patients at HHC's facilities throughout New York City.

Volunteers of America is a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing and other assistance services primarily to low-income people throughout the United States.

Since 1999, Volunteers of America has participated as a national partner in the Scholastic Book Grants program, distributing over 1, 833, 000 books throughout 27 states.

He joined the Volunteers and showed considerable skills in the art of target shooting, an interest that was to remain with him throughout his life.

Volunteers come from throughout the New York Metropolitan Area and Northern New Jersey.

O ' Rahilly, meanwhile, spent the entire night driving throughout the country, informing Volunteers leaders in Cork, Kerry, Tipperary, and Limerick that they were not to mobilize their forces on Sunday, thus largely preventing any rising outside of Dublin itself.

Volunteers working on behalf of Churnet Valley Railway, will carry out repairs on the four-mile stretch of track, supported by contractors.

Spier's Commemorative Wall This is a Garnock Valley support group, affiliated to the British Trust For Conservation Volunteers ( BTCV ), which works with the Spier's Trust, North Ayrshire Council Ranger Service, Beith Cultural & Heritage Society, Youth Making Beith Better ( YMBB ) and others to further the development and maintenance of the Spier's parklands.

* Loyal Volunteers, a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion.

Volunteers operate the museum, although it is run by the Conejo Valley Historical Society.

of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal .-: Sir: I have the honor to report that in accordance with instructions from district headquarters I assumed the command of the U. S. troops in Smith's River Valley on llth instant, and on the following day removed the command ( Captain Stuart's company ( G ), Second Infantry California Volunteers ) six miles south of Smith's River, equally distant from Crescent City, still to the south.

The Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers lost one-third of its numbers within a few minutes, among them being several men whose time of service had expired but who had volunteered to advance with their regiment.

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

If they had gone it alone, the IRB and the Volunteers would possibly have come to their aid ; however, the IRB leaders met with Connolly in January 1916 and convinced him to join forces with them.

In at least two incidents, at Jacobs and Stephens Green, the Volunteers and Citizen Army shot dead civilians who were trying to attack them or dismantle their barricades.

Volunteers, such as those involved in GenerousGenealogists, a follow-on group similar to Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness ( now defunct ), do record lookups or take photos in their home areas for researchers who are unable to travel.

Nevertheless, the plotters decided to go ahead with their plans on the following day, but as a result less than 2, 000 Volunteers turned out of a total membership of 12, 000.

The new leadership of the Irish Republic worried that the IRA would not accept its authority, given that the Volunteers, under their own constitution, were bound to obey their own executive and no other body.

During these two years the threat of religious civil war hung over Ireland with the creation of the Unionist Ulster Volunteers opposed to the Act and their nationalist counterparts, the Irish Volunteers supporting the Act.

It is fashionable now to suggest that Peace Corps Volunteers gained as much or more, from their experience as the countries they worked.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

On March 26, 1885, the 150 to 200 Métis and Aboriginal warriors under the command of Gabriel Dumont defeated a combined group of 90 Prince Albert Volunteers and North-West Mounted Police led by their superintendent Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier at Duck Lake, outside Batoche.

In April 1969, sessions began for their next album, Volunteers, using new 16-track facilities at the Wally Heider Studio in San Francisco.

The album's release was delayed when the band ran into conflict with their label over the content of songs such as " We Can Be Together " and " Uncle Sam Blues " and the planned title of the album, Volunteers of Amerika.

The best-known tracks include " Volunteers ," " We Can Be Together ," " Good Shepherd ," and the post-apocalyptic " Wooden Ships ," which Paul Kantner co-wrote with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and Crosby, Stills & Nash also recorded on their debut album.

This further complicated the recording of their long-overdue follow-up to Volunteers.

From that point on, the Volunteers would not seek to control Fianna in their areas.

Volunteers share their feelings about participating in the event and the viewer is given a close-up look at the individual panels.

President James Madison called Petersburg " Cockade of the Union " ( or " Cockade City "), in honor of the cockades which Volunteers wore on their caps.

This village, which numbered no more than 30 wooden houses and a bridge, soon caught fire from the French artillery bombardment, but the Austrian defenders from Hardegg's brigade ( 8th Jäger regiment and a battalion of Volunteers from the Erzherzog Karl Legion ) stood their ground, despite the flames.