This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to ob

"The institution used for the most part in raising the troops of the Grand Army goes under the name of conscription. Compulsory military service was not a new t

Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some