Goldwin Smith
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Edward, Viscount Cardwell — National Portrait Gallery — “He inaugurated the new policy of withdrawing from the Colonies in time of peace all imperial troops for which the Colonies would not undertake to pay, thereby promoting colonial self-defence and self-government, as well as economizing the forces of the empire and relieving the British taxpayer of an expense which in the case of the wars with the Maori had amounted to a million a year.”—Goldwin Smith in Dictionary of National Biography. — Cardwell became Secretary for War in 1868 and reorganized the British Army

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