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Obviously, this organization was one of the state fencible units enlisted for defense only, but little else is known about it.

The Eighth and Ninety-eighth British regiments, the Nova Scotia Fencible Infantry, with a battery of Artillery and a company of Engineers composed the Garrison of Halifax.

The inhabitants subscribed a sum approaching �4000 towards this fund; the officers of the Royal Nova Scotia Fencible Regiment, �200.

So rigorously was it applied that, what with voluntary and enforced enlistment, one town, that of Gloucester, was deprived of two thirds of its fencible men.

It happened, about this time, in consequence of the peace just established with the United States, that the De Meuron, Watteville and Glengarry Fencible Regiments were disbanded in the country.