Levée en masse
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Levée en masse is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often in the face of invasion. The concept originated during the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly for the period
c. 1808 painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly depicting French conscripts departing Paris in 1807
Levée en masse in 1793, by Lesueur
Caricature 1780 press gang
Cabinet wars
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Cabinet wars, derived from the German expression Kabinettskriege, is a historical term used to describe the regular, limited, aristocratic conflicts of eighteenth-century Europe, before the shift to t
Levée en masse
…defend the nation by the nation. Historically, the levée en masse heralded the age of total war and displaced restricted forms of warfare, such as the Cabinet wars (1715–1792), when armies of professional soldiers fought without the general participation of the population. The first modern use of levée en masse…
The Battle of Kunersdorf was part of the Seven Years' War, one of the most notable cabinet wars.