Conscription
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conscription-205-8735649
title:
Conscription
text:
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where it became the basis of a very large and powerful military. Most European nations later copied the system in peacetime, so that men at a certain age would serve
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Compulsory enlistment into national or military service
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription
date created:
2001-06-08T09:07:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:49:44Z
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