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From: jmc@Gang-of-Four.usenet (John McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: Civil War technology
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From: jmc@Gang-of-Four.usenet (John McCarthy)
[mod.note: Followups to soc.history.  - Bill ]

I'm pretty sure Simon Sciama's  Citizens  recounts that the French
revolutionary government introduced conscription in the early 1790s,
i.e. some years before Napoleon became prominent.