TY  - GEN
AU  - Ian F W Beckett
TI  - Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902
SN  - 9781317322184
PY  - 2015///1006
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period
ER  -