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Territorial Army   /tˌɛrɪtˈɔriəl ˈɑrmi/   Listen
Territorial Army

noun
1.
British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain.






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... Service, but the Voluntary System, that is un-English and unhistoric. The Territorial Army dates from 1908; the Volunteers from 1859; the Regular Army itself only from 1645. But for a millennium before the oldest of them the ancient defence of England was the Nation in Arms. When will ...
— Freedom In Service - Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government • Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw

... control. So will Imperial camps, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards. On the other hand, arrangements should certainly be made to permit the raising of Volunteer forces in Ireland. There are large numbers of Irishmen in the British Territorial Army, and Ireland sent five companies to the South African War. Though the poverty of the country will for a long time check the growth of Volunteer forces, it is the Union which presents the only serious obstacle to their establishment. No surer proof of the need for Home Rule could be adduced ...
— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers



Words linked to "Territorial Army" :   territorial, territorial reserve, yeomanry



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