Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars

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• Rory Butcher (University of Leeds)
• Thursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-19:00
• Boardroom in the Cambridge History Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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In stark contrast to the regular enlistment of a lifetime of service anywhere, the fencible regiments were created for service in Scotland only, later Britain, and only for the duration of the French Revolutionary War. Such limits were not new and, in conjunction with the early stages of trade unionism, these men therefore engaged with civilian and military conceptions of negotiation with authority. This paper will evaluate several key events, particularly the spring 1794 “mutinies”, to consider how fencibles demonstrated both this engagement and their broader understanding of their soldiering as a contractual form of labour.

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