burden of defence

---- The test of citizenship was birth, legal residence in the community, and participation in the common burdens of defence and tax.

Unwilling to shoulder the burden of defence himself, the Portuguese ruler, King João III of Portugal, divided the coast into "captaincies", or swathes of land, 50 leagues apart.

HSP's political appeal and strength were at peak during the 1991 and 1992 when Croatian Defence Forces, a military wing of the HSP, took heavy burden of defence of Croatia.

With the land border with Scotland safe, the main burden of defence would fall upon the Royal Navy, Cecil proposed to strengthen and revitalise the Navy, making it the centerpiece of English power.

So important was this regarded that in the final quarter of the fourteenth century a system of coastal defence on land was developed, essentially a second line to carry the burden of defence once the enemy had managed to effect a landing on English soil.