| Disgrifiad | In this year too, the Volunteer movement gains ground in Anglesey, and the news of the Fishguard landing - the "late daring invasion of our coasts by the enemy" given a decided spurt to the efforts of the more substantial freeholders to form themselves into "corps of Volunteer Fencibles...to learn th euse of small arms and artillery for the defence of that island" (643, 659, 664-666). In the Amlwch district a separate force, the "Loyal Parys Mountain Volunteers", is formed in March (660) and by the end of April is undergoing a regular course of training, meeting "every evening at 4 o clock in a field about halfway between the town and the Mountain" (709) John Price proudly describes the uniform : "blue turned up with red, buff coloured waistcoat and Pantaloons likewise turned up with red cord or edging - yellow buttons", blue having been decided upon because the "miners think themselves degraded id thwy wear a red coat" (664). Now and again comes news of the movements of the embodied militia ; on the 5th of April it receives its marching orders to proceed to temporary quarters at Littlehampton on the Sussex coast (694). And to remind us of the stern realities of the international situation, is the little item pushed by John Price into a postscript to one of his letters to Sanderson : "the Jane Brig of Amlwch is taken by the Resistance French frigate - she was bound to Swansea with Paris Mine Copper" (671) |