Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ank of Captain in the Corps and died at Bermudain 1843. Horatio Gates, at Halifax, , 9th October, 1805, namedafter the American General, entered the 86th County DownRegt. attained the rank of Major and died in 1865. Charles Hare, at Halifax, N. S., 18th January, 1807, diedyoung. James Henry Phillott, at Halifax, , 29th March,1808, entered the 13th P. A. L. I., 25th October, 1827 servedwith distinction with that Corps throughout the Affghan War,1839-42; received Brevet Majority for the defence of Jell-alabad;died at Belfast in 1849. Ch
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ank of Captain in the Corps and died at Bermudain 1843. Horatio Gates, at Halifax, , 9th October, 1805, namedafter the American General, entered the 86th County DownRegt. attained the rank of Major and died in 1865. Charles Hare, at Halifax, N. S., 18th January, 1807, diedyoung. James Henry Phillott, at Halifax, , 29th March,1808, entered the 13th P. A. L. I., 25th October, 1827 servedwith distinction with that Corps throughout the Affghan War,1839-42; received Brevet Majority for the defence of Jell-alabad;died at Belfast in 1849. Charlotte Arhilda, at Halifax,26th November, 1809, died in 1891. George Howard, at Hali-fax, 6th June, 1811, died in 1885. Elizabeth, at Halifax, 1stNovember, 1812, died in 1843. The compiler of the above is the second and only survivingson of Major James Henry Phillot Fenwick by his marriagewith Louisa Susanna Bridge Sheridan, daughter of Mark Sheri-dan, Esq., 13 P. A. L. I. (now Somersetshire, L. I.) G. C. Fenwick, Colonel, Indian Army, (Retired).. H. R. H. EDWARD, THE DUKE OF KENT,Commanding this District. (From an Engraving l)y Thompson, 1820.) THE MILITIA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1749-1867. 63 THE MILITIA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1749-1867. By JOSEPH PLIMSOLL EDWARDS, Londonderry, N. S.(Read Jan. 1908 and Nov. 1911.) The organization of measures of defence, however primitivethey may be, is one of the first symptoms of national Ufe in thehistory of any civilized community in which freedom is valued,and expansion hoped for. Without the power to maintain suchfreedom, its members, crushed and oppressed in body and spirit,sink into the condition of serfs, their vigour and manliness lost,their aims and aspirations contracted to the narrowest sphere,and their hopes for national or even local development dreamswhich in all probability can never be realized. In the wordsof a modern writer The obligation of national defence is thefirst obligation of a nation, for it is necessary to the existenceof a na
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