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Inniskilling|ɪnɪˈskɪlɪŋ|
Also Enniskillen, Enniskilling, Inniskellen, Inniskillen.
The name of the county town of Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, used attrib. or absol. to designate a regiment originally raised for the defence of that town in 1689. So Inniˈskilliner, a member of this regiment.
[1690A. Hamilton (title) A true relation of the actions of the Inniskillingmen, from their first taking up of arms in December, 1688 for the defence of the Protestant religion, and their lives and liberties.] 1715in E. S. Jackson Inniskilling Dragoons (1909) ii. 35 A detachment of Greys and Inniskillings arrived in Edinburgh from Stirling. 1797Encycl. Brit. IX. 243/2 Its [sc. Inniskilling's] inhabitants distinguished themselves..in the wars of Ireland at the revolution, out of which a regiment of dragoons, bearing the title of the Inniskilleners, was mostly formed. They form the 6th regiment of dragoons in the British Army. 1817G. Jones Battle of Waterloo II. 55 The second heavy brigade of cavalry..consisted of..the 6th, or Inniskillings. 1822M. Edgeworth Let. 11 Feb. (1971) 347 Will you inquire for Wilkie what is put on the caps of the Inniskellen 6th Dragoons... If you know of any Dragoon that would be better than the Inniskillen tell me. 1853J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 141/1 Inniskilliners, the officers and soldiers of the 6th dragoons and the 27th foot are so called, from the two regiments having been originally raised at Inniskilling, a town of Ulster. 1893J. C. Ropes Campaign of Waterloo xvi. 300 In rear of the left wing..stood the Union brigade..composed of the Royal Dragoons, the Scots Greys, and the Inniskilling Dragoons. 1968Encycl. Brit. IX. 185/1 At Newtownbutler, in 1689, the Protestant Enniskillen men severely defeated a superior Roman Catholic army of James II and began the victorious tradition of the ‘Inniskillings’, now represented in the British Army by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. 1971G. Blaxland Regiments Depart vi. 204 The previous December..the Inniskilling Dragoon Guards were relieved by the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. |