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Don Carleton said...

John, it would be really interesting to see whether the literature on civil-military relations in the "home islands" covers similar incidents to the one explored here.

My understanding is that some large portion of the peacetime British army was scattered about the country in small detachments and often tasked with local police work, including the suppression of smuggling.

So it would seem likely that might be other recorded incidents in which British officers commanding such detachments clashed with local law enforcement, who--it seems reasonable to surmise--would have wanted to assert their authority in the face of outside interlopers.

Jul 29, 2019, 3:33:02 PM

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