Talk:Foreign Enlistment Act 1870

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I have changed renegade to former. The reason so many soldiers and seamen who had previously been engaged in the British forces going to S America was that prsonnel were dismissed or put on half pay at the end of the Napoleonic wars. Notable individuals included Thomas Cochrane, who did nothing wrong in British law by founding the Chilean Navy Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.145.81 (talk) 08:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your unsigned comment. I arrived at this page while reading a biography of Lord Cochrane and seeing mention of the Foreign Enlistment Act, which is on this page as a see also for the Foreign Enlistment Act 1819, which does not yet exist. I would like to have such an article, but I am unsure about sources. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:25, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Asia?
I see nothing in the text of the Act about excluding Asia, and if it did, then how could it have applied to the Russo-Japanese War or the Sino-Japanese War? PatGallacher (talk) 17:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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"The Act made it a crime for any citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to enlist themselves in the military of any foreign power at war with any state with which the UK was at peace." ... from reading the Act it appears to apply to any British Subject anywhere in the Empire - also it appears not to apply to Asia. Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.43.217.70 (talk) 00:28, 20 November 2014 (UTC)