Prussian Conscription - History Forum
网页2020年12月28日 · History lost in time said: The Prussian Army was reorganized starting in 1859. Its structure hadn't been changed much since 1815 and a reform was needed a lot. Up to 1870, the following system was in effect: - 3 years of conscription (active service) - 5 years of reserve-duty (service from time to time) - 11 years of "service" within the Landwehr.
How did conscription work in Prussia in 1870? - History Forum
网页2016年12月11日 · Hessen-Kassel fought on the side of Austria against Prussia in 1866, and he would have been the right age to have seen service in that. I'm unsure if H-K also had universal conscription, but I think they did. Just as an aside, although conscription was universal in theory, in practice it was seldom if ever so.
Conscription or Volunteer: which is better? - History Forum
网页Nov 22, 2013. #2. Volunteer armies are superior to conscript armies. Generally speaking a man who volunteers to serve is going to be a better soldier than one who was forced into it. There are always exceptions of course, and individual conscripts can be just as brave or dedicated as a volunteer, but all other things being equal (training ...
WW1 Australia conscription and social class - History Forum
网页2016年4月8日 · Conscription was a very emotive issue in Australia during WWI. There had already been conscription prior to the war (Australia was at the time the only English speaking country to have peacetime conscription) and this had already caused division, however the pre-war Militia was not allowed to serve overseas and thus when war was …
The right of German citizens to leave the country during the Third ...
网页2024年2月21日 · Although in most countries with classic 20th-century-style conscription, once the army is mobilized the border authorities check passports to make sure that nobody eligible for conscription is leaving. And if you left say Germany for Italy, the German authorities can ring up Mussolini and have you returned.
How could person's identity be verified during the Age of Sail, e.g ...
网页2023年12月13日 · That's an odd thing to conclude - quite apart from anything else the random drunk would be liable to impressment, because it is conscription. But as it happens we actually do know that the Royal Navy kept sufficient paperwork (in the early 19th century, anyway) to track down whether an individual sailor had recieved the bounty for voluntary ...
How Waffen SS Soldiers became Guards at the Nuremberg War …
网页2020年12月31日 · Resistance at that point became futile because if someone was picked for conscription and they refused they families were threatened with imprisonment or in some cases death. In addition once the selected soldiers were informed that they would be fighting and killing Russians all of their inhibitions faded away because of the way they had been ...
Did the ancient Chinese have the command and control system …
网页2019年11月18日 · These two elements (high bureacratization and universal conscription) have to still be accompanied with high population numbers to justify the belief that even the biggest of Zhangguo states were mobilising armies in the low hundreds of thousands like you said, except perhaps on very rare occasions, and even then, it's unlikely they could …
Was China ever in the top 3 most powerful countries/empires of …
网页2019年3月13日 · The Roman Empire is outclassed in territorial extent, bureaucratization, military mobilization, budget, metallurgy, weaponry, cavalry, and probably population as well to the contemporary Han Empire; I would say the Western Han is the most militarily powerful state in Chinese history because of a centralized universal conscription system over 60 ...
How could person's identity be verified during the Age of Sail, e.g ...
网页2023年12月13日 · I suspect that a lot of the cause of that is a combination of the focus on a resentful pressed man being more dramatic, a correct representation of how the practice was felt to be at the time, and the way that "improper Impressment was rampant and a cause of the War of 1812" is a common bit of historiography - while it takes really delving …