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The Stanhope Memorandum was a document written by Edward Stanhope, the
Secretary of State for War The Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964. The Secretary of State for War headed the War Office and ...
of the
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, on 8 December 1888. It set out the overall strategic aims of the
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, and the way the
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was to be employed towards these aims. It gave the priorities of the Army, in order, as: # the support of the civil power in the United Kingdom # the provision of reinforcements for
India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
# the provision of garrison units for fortresses, colonies and coaling stations # the provision of two
corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...
for home defence # the ability to deploy one of these two corps for service in a European war


References

*''The Stanhope Memorandum of 1888: a Reinterpretation''. Ian F. W. Beckett: in ''Historical Research'', Vol. 57 Iss. 136, Pages 240-7
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*"The Stanhope Memorandum", p.311 of ''The Victorians at war, 1815-1914'', by Harold E. Raugh. Published by ABC-CLIO, 2004. {{ISBN, 1-57607-925-2 19th-century history of the British Army 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom 1888 in the United Kingdom 1888 documents 1888 in military history British defence policymaking