Colonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories.
Read more about Colonial Troops: Colonial Background, Origins, Basis of Recruitment, Settler Militia, Advantages of Colonial Troops, Disadvantages, Use Outside Areas of Origin, Symbolism, End of Empires
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“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.”
—Aristide Briand (1862–1932)