DCHP-3

flank company

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of a number of militia companies raised in Upper Canada in 1811, who saw much service in the War of 1812.

See: flanker ((1))(def. 1)

Quotations

1963
In Upper Canada the volunteers were embodied, under an Act procured by Brock in 1811, as the famous "flank companies" which fought in the line with the British regulars and from which the battalion of Incorporated Militia was drawn.