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<p><P>This is the first major book concentrating on the volunteer force to be published for nearly a century. The volunteers were one of the largest mass movements of the eighteenth century, involving at their height about a quarter of the adult male population. Members included men as varied as William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Sir John Soane, William Pitt, and Henry Addington. Austin Gee considers how the volunteers were organized, who joined them and why, and their military and social activities.</p>

Author

Gee, Austin

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199261253

Subjects

History, Military, Government_military