Purchase
A Military Dictionary · 1810 · p. 35
The sale and purchase of commi ions is countenanced by government, and the prices of those commi ions are regulated by authority, yet there are various ways through which young men of fortune and connexions get over the heads of veteran officers in the British army. In 1809, the detection of a system of purchase from the concubines of the British commander in chief excited astonishment. Purchase and sale are terms unknown in the British navy.
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