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Title: Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II.

Author: Gustav Freytag

Translator: Georgiana Malcolm

Release Date: September 29, 2010 [EBook #33819]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE

IN THE

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.

SECOND SERIES.

* * * * *

VOL. II.

PICTURES

OF

GERMAN LIFE

In the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries.

Second Series.

BY
GUSTAV FREYTAG.

Translated from the Original by
MRS. MALCOLM.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION.--IN TWO VOLUMES_.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.
1863.

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VII.

Away from the Garrison (1700).--The army, and the constitution
of the State--The country militia and their history--The soldiery of
the Sovereign--Change of organisation after the war--The beginning
of compulsory levies about 1700--Gradual introduction of
conscription--Recruiting and its illegalities--Desertions--Trafficking
with armies--The Prussian army under Frederic William I.--The regiment