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Encyclopedia Britannica



COMMANDO

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 765 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COMMANDO , a Portuguese word meaning " command," adopted by the Boers in
South
 
Africa
  through whom it has come into
English
  use, for military and semi-military expeditions against the natives. More particularly a " commando " was the administrative and
tactical
  unit of the forces of the former
Boer
  republics, " commandeered " under the law of the constitutions which made military service obligatory on all
males
  between the ages of sixteen and sixty. Each " commando " was formed from the burghers of military age of an electoral
district
 .


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