History GCSE
Purchase of commissions
What Purchase of commissions means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Purchase of commissions
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A practice abolished in 1871 so that officers were promoted on merit.
Topics that use Purchase of commissions
- Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 1 The nature of warfare (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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