>The British basically perfected the art of rounding up drunks and vagrants and turning them into soldiers and sailors. Britain had the (mostly forgotten) spec

>The British basically perfected the art of rounding up drunks and vagrants and turning them into soldiers and sailors. Britain had the (mostly forgotten) specificity of having a small population. Although it's fairly similar to France now, for a very long time the difference was four or five times. It only broke through the glass sealing and started exploding around the time of the American Revolution. Their foreign policies put extreme demographic pressure onto British society.