Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often...

insistence, the Convention issued the following proclamation ordering a levée en masse "From this moment until such time as its enemies shall have been driven...

Crampe en masse Crampe en Masse (album) by Crampe en masse En Masse Entertainment, a Seattle-based PC and mobile game-publishing company Levée en masse, the...

measures. The Committee of Public Safety was formed (6 April 1793) and the levée en masse drafted all potential soldiers aged 18 to 25 (August 1793). The new...

mobilization is demobilization. Mobilization institutionalized the Levée en masse (engl. mass levy of conscripts) that was first introduced during the...

Volkssturm (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksʃtʊʁm]; "people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months...

response to Prussia joining Austria against France. Along with the Levée en masse declared the next year, it was part of the growing idea of "people's...

Culmerland. He also decided to call for another levée en masse from the whole Polish kingdom. The levée en masse in Opoka, this time dominated by nobility from...

de l'an II : la levée en masse et la création d'un mythe républicain" [The Army of the Year II in modern memory: the levée-en-masse and the creation...

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citizen soldiers enlisted from both volunteers and conscripts. This Levée en masse was to be formed by all young unmarried males. The 1798 Jourdan law...

18th century, when the leaders of the French Revolution called for the levée en masse and a general mobilization of society to prevent monarchist forces from...

reference to “The Soldiers of Year II”, the conscripts raised by the Levée en masse in 1793 to defend the French First Republic against foreign invaders...

conscription, the massed military enlistment of national citizens (levée en masse), was devised during the French Revolution, to enable the Republic to...

military reforms, which included the introduction of mass conscription (levée en masse), were instrumental in transforming the French Revolutionary Army into...

soldiers, which included "40,000 regulars and 40,000 nobles of the levée en masse, accompanied by roughly the same number of various servants, footmen...

convention. As the committee, restructured in July, raised the defense (levée en masse) against the monarchist coalition of European nations and counter-revolutionary...

decided to become Swedish allies together with the pospolite ruszenie (Levée en masse) of Greater Poland to Charles X Gustav of Sweden. In the summer of 1655...

Culmerland. He also decided to call for another levée en masse from the whole Polish kingdom. The levée en masse in Opoka, this time dominated by nobility from...

involved. In the Prussian War of Liberation conscription modeled after the levée en masse of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst was introduced and the Prussian army...

requisitioned by authorities in each district. On 23 August, the decree on the levée en masse turned able-bodied civilians into soldiers. On 5 September, Parisians...

Caesaropapism upon the Catholic Church in France, and the mass conscription, or levée en masse (1793), which was decided by the National Convention. A first attempt...

north of the Loire. While elsewhere in France the revolts against the levée en masse were repressed, an insurgent territory, called the Vendée militaire...

occupied Pokuttia again. The Poles, having gathered 20,000 troops (Levée en masse, defense troops, enlisted troops) under the command of Hetman Kamieniecki...

medieval England Opolchenie, a Russian version of medieval conscription Levée en masse, mass conscript armies, especially that of Revolutionary France Volkssturm...

become apparent after the French Revolutionary Wars. At this time, the levée en masse and conscription would become the defining paradigm of modern warfare...

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it was blocked by a combined force of Polish Royal Army soldiers, a levée en masse of Galician magnates, and Prussian mercenaries. At the Battle of Rohatyn...

late August 1793, instigated by Lazare Carnot, France introduced the levée en masse, a mass conscription of young unmarried men. Also in late August, a...

crisis Counter-recruitment Draft-card burning Draft evasion Impressment Levée en masse Military service National service War resister By historical country...