In military strategy, a flying camp, or camp-volant, was a small but strong army of cavalry and dragoons, to which were sometimes added foot soldiers. Such an army was usually commanded by a lieutenant general, and was always in motion, both to cover the garrisons in possession, and to keep the adversary in continual alarm."Camp". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. 1989.
See also Flying Camp, for the American use of the concept in 1776
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