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The records in the War Office tell us that , including officers , there are between six and seven thousand men in the two old armies ; but as to the new army of 25,000 men , it is difficult to give any certain account of the number ...
The records in the War Office tell us that , including officers , there are between six and seven thousand men in the two old armies ; but as to the new army of 25,000 men , it is difficult to give any certain account of the number ...
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a Russian can hold his own in Europe ; for 73 per cent of the army in Europe can neither read nor write , of that in Asia , 82 per cent . The minor officers are , moreover , of low grade , a fact scarcely compatible with efficiency .
a Russian can hold his own in Europe ; for 73 per cent of the army in Europe can neither read nor write , of that in Asia , 82 per cent . The minor officers are , moreover , of low grade , a fact scarcely compatible with efficiency .
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So long as an army is a despotic body , so long will service due to a single chief , which cannot be complicated by professional intrigues , be the better rendered . In the German army officers are put where they can do the work they ...
So long as an army is a despotic body , so long will service due to a single chief , which cannot be complicated by professional intrigues , be the better rendered . In the German army officers are put where they can do the work they ...
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The French Interest in American Independence 1778 | 27 |
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| Title | Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign Policy |
| Editor | Norman A. Graebner |
| Compiled by | Norman A. Graebner |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 892 pages |
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