Mutiny Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Act Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military...
Mutiny Act Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... Act . Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military discipline. The navy had been under statutory authority since 1661 and was less politically delicate since the fleet could hardly be used to threaten public liberties. In 1784 the Fox–North coalition toyed with the...
Mutiny Act (1689) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Act ( 1689 ) English legislation concerning the enforcement of military discipline, primarily over mutineers and deserters. The Declaration of Rights ( 1689 ) had declared illegal a standing army without parliamentary consent. To strengthen parliamentary control of the army, the 1689 Mutiny Act was enforced for one year only, theoretically giving Parliament the right of an annual review. In fact there were years ( 1689–1701 ) when it was not in force and both army and navy long retained their close connection with the sovereign. Only when the crown...
Mutiny Act
India and English Government Reference library
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khān
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...for actions of the Indians themselves. Who can say that the Government is to be blamed for having, after the Mutiny of 1857, taken away arms from the people of India and prohibited their possession without a license? It was a punishment to the Indians for the misdeeds they committed during the Mutiny of 1857. Every fair-minded person will admit the Indians had in their evil deeds gone so far that the Government was compelled to pass the Arms Act. . . . The well-being of the people of India, and especially of the Musalmans, lies in leading a quiet life under...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...improvised, survivalist existence of the poor. There were occasions when the collective protest of the men resembled any crowd action of the time, as a conflict of popular beliefs and expectations against the demands of social superiors. Without the backing of the Mutiny Act, volunteer officers depended on their social authority and force of personality to impose military order. The volunteers never managed to span the yawning gulf in British society between the military and the civilian. Neither the army nor the militia drew more than a tiny...
Revolution Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was extensive from 1794 to 1796 and again from 1799 to 1801 [ see *famine ], and from 1795 there were riots as new regulations for registering for the militia were put into practice. When the first Scottish Militia Act ( 1797 ) was implemented, widespread protest flared up throughout Scotland. In 1797 there were *naval mutinies in Nore and Spithead, allegedly fuelled by London Corresponding Society literature, and there was an agreed policy of subversion of the army among some cells of the United Englishmen—the English counterpart to the United...
Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon Reference library
Mordechai Cogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...639 does read like a sign that victorious Assyria had come upon bad times. Manasseh died in 642 bce , and his son and successor Amon (641–640) reigned just two years before being assassinated by his courtiers. There is no way of knowing just what prompted this mutiny, and equally strong cases can be made for either foreign or internal affairs. Judah did not lack for political tensions and intrigues. The uprising was soon put down by “the people of land,” that influential segment of the population of Judah, mostly the wealthy, who appeared in...
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