cornetcy


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cornetcy

(ˈkɔːnɪtsɪ)
n, pl -cies
(Military) obsolete the commission or rank of a cornet
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Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and the sutlers.
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In 1813 William Beckwith purchased a cornetcy - the rank of a new or junior officer - in the 16th Light Dragoons, or light cavalry.
North soldier's pistol carried at Waterloo to be sold
His son William, born some time between 1778 and 1781, also joined the army, and obtained a cornetcy in the 16th Light Dragoons in 1792 at an abnormally young age of between eleven and fourteen.
A woman at Waterloo: Andrew Roberts introduces the remarkable memoir of Magdalene De Lancey, wife of Wellington's chief of staff, who accompanied her husband on a campaign that climaxed in triumph and tragedy
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