Territorial Army
In the 18th and 19th centuries, an army was referred to as a territorial army . B. regiments , added their men from certain areas of the country in close proximity to the garrisons .
In Germany and Austria , as in France , for example, the Landwehr was a territorial army . Other examples were the Russian Reichswehr, the Italian Mobile Militia and Territorial Militia, the Territorial Forces of Romania , Serbia and Bulgaria , the Greek National Guard and the British Yeomanry .
A common system was the canton system, in which each regiment was assigned a specific area ("canton") as a levy district. Since the forcibly recruited soldiers, the “ cantonists ”, often did not comply with their reporting obligation, the saying arose that someone was an “insecure cantonist”, ie. H. an unreliable person.
In the United Kingdom , the British Army Volunteer Reserve was called the Territorial Army (TA; Territorial Army ). In 2014 it was renamed the Army Reserve .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus 1911
- ^ British Army , Join Army Reserve , Retrieved September 16, 2015