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Colonial Military Forces Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
...forgot that the new mounted tactics were beginning to be used by citizen horse-soldiers throughout English-speaking countries, and that the dull new uniform was copied from India and spread at the insistence of visiting regular officers. During the 1890s a myth, a now-forgotten subspecies of the bush legend, began to grow about ‘buff-coloured boys’ whose untutored ability to ride and shoot was revealing a natural talent of Australian colonists for war. A formal attempt to establish an Australian military identity was launched in 1896–97 when, in response to...
