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Author Gee, Austin

Title The British volunteer movement, 1794-1814 / Austin Gee
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents 1. 'So gallant and patriotic a measure': The Genesis of the Volunteer Force -- 2. The Development of Volunteering -- 3. 'The shop-keeping army': The Membership of Volunteer Corps -- 4. 'A Connexion of Loyalty' -- 5. 'To shield me from all harm': The Motivation for Volunteering -- 6. The Public Face of Volunteering -- 7. 'An Armed Democracy': The Political Threat of the Volunteer Movement -- 8. 'The Friends of Peace and Order': Invasion, Riots, and Internal Policing
Summary This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social, political and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-311) and index
Subject Volunteers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Volunteers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Participation, British
Military participation -- British.
Volunteers.
Armies.
Military & Naval Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056816
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056840
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Military history.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199261253
0199261253