Mobilization
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Mobilization is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war. The word mobilization was first used in a military context in the 1850s to describe the preparation of the Prus
When king Æthelred and Alfred learnt that Vikings were in Wessex, they sent messengers to mobilize men in every village
Belgian army mobilization papers to join a Lanciers regiment
German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris. (From Munich via Metz to Paris).
Photograph shows reservists and crowd at the Gare de Paris-Est, Paris during the beginning of World War I
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
Mobilization
…Mobilization theories and tactics have continuously changed since then. The opposite of mobilization is demobilization. Mobilization institutionalized the Levée en masse (French for 'mass levy [of conscripts]') that was first introduced during the French Revolution. It became an issue with the introduction of conscription…
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