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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMMANDO , a Portuguese word meaning " command," adopted by the Boers in See also:

South See also:Africa through whom it has come into See also:English use, for military and semi-military expeditions against the natives. More particularly a " commando " was the administrative and See also:tactical unit of the forces of the former See also:Boer republics, " commandeered " under the See also:law of the constitutions which made military service obligatory on all See also:males between the ages of sixteen and sixty. Each " commando " was formed from the burghers of military See also:age of an electoral See also:district.

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