Commando Law

The word stems from the Dutch/Afrikaans commando/kommando which is particularly similar to the word command in English which is where the word commando derives from in that lingo. The Dutch word has had the meaning of "a military order" since at slightest 1652 and likely came into the language through Spanish influence. Less expected, it is a High German loan word, which was used from Italian in the 1600s, from the sizable minority of German settlers in the initial European colonization of South Africa.
After the Dutch Cape Colony was established in 1652, the word was use to portray bands of citizen or Burgher armed forces. The pioneer "Commando Law" was installed by the actual Dutch East India Company chartered agreements and similar laws were maintained through the free Boer Orange Free State and South African Republic. The accomplishment of these laws was labeled the "Commando System." A pack of escalated militiamen were planned in a unit known as a commando and headed by a Commandant, who was normally selected from inside the unit. Men described up to supply were said to be "on commando." British experience with this method lead to the widespread adoption of the word "commandeer" into English in the 1880s.
During the Great Trek, arguments with southern African people such as the Xhosa and the Zulu reasoned the Boers to retain the commando system despite being free of colonial rules. During this period, the Boers also extended guerrilla procedures for use against numerically higher but less mobile bands of natives such as the Zulu who clashed in big complex creations.
In the First Boer War, Boer commandos were able to use greater marksmanship, disguise and mobility to eject an occupying British force (weakly educated in marksmanship, wearing red uniforms and unmounted) from the Transvaal. In the final stage of the war, 75,000 Boers carried out asymmetric war against the 450,000-great British Empire forces for two years after the British had detained the capital cities of the two Boer nations.
In 1941, Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. Clarke of the British Imperial General Staff, commended the name Commando for specialized raiding units of the British Army Special Service in trace of the value and tactics of the Boer commandos. During World War II, American magazines bewildered over the use of the word as a British military unit or method gave rise to the current common habit of using "a commando" to mean one member of such a unit, or one man busy on a raiding-type operation.

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