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Imperial barrack-building in eighteenth-century Ireland and Jamaica
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This chapter represents some initial investigations into whether there was an identifiable British imperial barrack-building policy in the eighteenth century. It will consider to what extent comparisons can be made in relation to the nature and purpose of barrack-building in Ireland and Jamaica in the early-to-mid eighteenth century, and the extent to which the country-wide barrack-building project that commenced in Ireland in the late 1690s might have provided a template or example for a nascent imperial barrack-building project in other parts of the emerging British empire. Such considerations will be predicated upon assessment of some of the imperatives for building barracks, such as the need to house a standing army required to fight wars, defend imperial possessions and gain new ones, and the more mundane though crucial matters of discipline, health and military logistics for an imperial army. These considerations will be made within the context of continuing anti-standing army sentiment in Britain and elsewhere in the empire during the eighteenth century.

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