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British Volunteer Corps
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This article is about the force extant from 1794–1803. For other volunteer forces, see Volunteer force (disambiguation).
The Volunteer Corps was a British voluntary part-time organization for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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