Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
“no kidding, we did the same thing in the 19th century by using the british officer corps as a spine to much larger colonial militias. d00d, its a revelation!”
Well, apparently it is…
And by the way, the English never had Colonial Officers, the French did, and Civil administrators. The English Colonialism was more “racist” than the French so they hardly trained locals above the ranks of NCO. The French did.
So to point out the “colonials” troops were good only under “white” officers is the same things than to block people from school and then saying there are uneducated and even don’t know to read… …d00d…
sorry for the lack of precision, i was referring to the notion of colonial levies where british officers officered colonial levies, and a very effective system it was too.

that said, the british army did promote locals to officer rank, i have a family picture of my great-grandad and his future son-in-law which demonstrates exactly this point: