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Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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defensive power. In or<!er to increase the army, which l)ytreaty .should not exceed 70,000 men in time of peace, it would benecessary for the first three years to dismiss twenty men in every com-pany, yeaily afterward, ten men; the absentees were to be replaced byothers, the dismissed to l)e reviewed every year in their cantonments ;clothing and arms were to be kept rcadv f<ir tiieni in the (Irpöts. Inthis mannei-, within three years about 170,000 trained men would beprovided with a sutlicient number of officers. A jirovincial militia,wliicji clotiiid and ariuecl itself and every year was mustered anddrilled, would, in the absence of the regulars, perform garrison dutyand maintain jieace in the interior. Thus was Scharnhorst, even atthat time, filled with the thought of a pcojiles war against Napoleon.At first, indeed, since the king did not conceive the time to have come foraction, these suggestions were onlv in outline, but thev contained thesjjerm GENEJtÄL SCHARNIJORST. 85
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Fk;. 17. Marble statue of taiieral Sellariiburst. h\ C. Kaucli, in Ccli 86 Till-: A WAKHNING OF THE IKOlLES. of tliat which caino to life in ISl.l: the universal (iliiipition to serviceand the militia (Fig. IS). But wiiile, anionic tiu; men of llic rcforni, ntitlicr Stein nor llanleii-Ijorg, iieitiier Seliarnliorst nor Bliielier, ncitiier (ineisenau nmNiehuiir,was Irussian by birtii, yet did tiie Iruf-sian state by its own native forcesnot merely raise itself from its deep prostration, but in such a mannerthat it a()propriated to itself the fruits oi the travail through whiehthe (German mind passed in the eighteenth century. Simultaneouslywitii the French Revolution one not less powerful and far-reaching per-vaded the German people. A German literature sprang uj) within theshort space of two generations, wiiieh bore the sharp impress of a dis-tinctlv national character and infused into the German people once morethe lost sentiment of inward union, and caused it, llir the first ti

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