Purchase of commissions in the British Army
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Purchase of commissions in the British Army has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland explains that purchased aristocratic commissions were seen as a safeguard of English liberty against a Cromwell-style professional army.
“It's because it's seen as an expression of English liberty. That there will never again be something like Cromwell's army”
The Rest Is History: 721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1) (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 18:57
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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Nov 9, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a series on the Charge of the Light Brigade, profiling Lords Cardigan and Lucan and tracing the Crimean War's origins.