TERRITORIAL ARMY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Territorial Army

... twenty-first year is held by the government (with very few exceptions) to five years service in the active army, four years in the reserve of the active army, five years in the territorial army, and four in the reserve of the territorial army—eighteen years altogether! Could his Satanic Majesty have devised any better plan for destroying the moral distinction between men and carnivorous beasts? The only mitigation of this horror is that college ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various