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cavalry, this militia was a regular army in all but name. Combining continuous service with territorial recruiting as it did, it consisted of men of a better See also:

STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp than the casually recruited regular forces. In those days, the militia was a county force commanded by the lords-See also:

LIEUTENANT

lieutenant and officered by men of See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence; it was not administered by the See also:

War See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office. In other countries, Napoleon's invading armies had only to See also:

DEAL

deal with regular or professional troops. Once these were crushed, nothing remained for the beaten See also:

side but to make See also:

peace with the conqueror on such terms as could be obtained. Militias existed in name as organizations, for the See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of more or less unwilling drafts for the line, but the fundamental militia See also:

OBLIGATION

obligation of defending the fatherland as distinct from defending the See also:

state, produced only See also:

LOCAL

local and occasional outbursts of See also:

GUERRILLA (erroneously written " guerilla," being the diminutive of the Span. guerra, war)

guerrilla warfare. In the See also:

CRIMEAN

Crimean War, the 1859 war in See also:

Italy, the 1866 war in See also:

Germany, and other wars (the Hungarian War of 1848–49 excepted) the forces, other than the regular troops, engaged in first line were guerrilleros, insurgents, Garibaldians, &c., and behind the forces in first line there were draft-supplying agencies, but no true militia.

Only the See also:

BRITISH

British militia and the Prussian See also:

LANDWEHR

landwehr represented the self-contained army of second line, and of these the former was never put to the test, while the latter, responding feebly to a See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call to arms in 185o, was in consequence so entirely reorganized that it formed a See also:

mere See also:

REAR

rear See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank to the line troops. This latter See also:

SYSTEM

system, consecrated by the See also:

German successes of 187o, became the universal See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model for the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of Europe, and organized and self-contained militias to-See also:

day are only to be found in states maintaining first line armies of " See also:

general service " professionals, or in states which maintain ,no first line troops whatever. In the first class are the See also:

AUXILIARY (from Lat. auxilium, help)

auxiliary forces of the British See also:

EMPIRE

Empire and the See also:

UNITED

United States, in the second the Swiss, See also:

NORWEGIAN

Norwegian, Dutch and See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish forces.

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