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From: bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow)
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Subject: Re: Civil War technology
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.005756.11591@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 00:57:56 GMT
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From: bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow)


From: bnr-vpa!schow%bcarh185.bnr.ca@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stanley T.H. Chow)

In article <1990Oct15.034351.14304@cbnews.att.com> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>
>From what I recall of the program, Napoleon 
>was the first to introduce conscription. Be-
>fore that, warfare (at least in europe) was 
>conducted by small, professional armies. I 
>don't think Napoleon carried war to the local 
>populations, or used scorched-earth techniques
>(although he was, I think, the first to come 
>up against guerilla warfare (in Spain)).

I would have to check for details, but China certainly had various
forms of conscription many centuries before Napoleon. 



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