The purchase system in the British Army, 1660–1871
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University library book, scanned (300dpi), cleaned (textcleaner by Fred Weinhaus, Copyright ©), perfectly OCRd (tesseract on a clean, perfectly vertical text). A little heavy for its size (180MB for 200 pages) could not decrease size significantly. My first upload. Enjoy ! Preface Introduction 1 Origins and Early History 2 Buying and Selling Commissions in the Nineteenth Century 3 The Effects of Purchase on Military Organisation 4 The Movement for Reform 5 The Abolition of Purchase 6 The New System and the Late Victorian Army Appendices 1 Form of the oath introduced on 1 July 1693 to prevent payments by officers and soldiers for any position in the army 11 Lord Barrington’s remarks on the position of the nonpurchase officer, 8 February 1766 111 Lord Palmerston on the purchase system 1V Regulation prices of commissions, 1854 V Royal warrant dated 20 July 1871 to cancel and determine all regulations authorising the purchase or sale or exchange for money of commissions in the army, from 1 November 1871 VI Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s account of the abolition of purchase
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