Compulsory enlistment into national or military service
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In Council of War, July 29, 1778 . Whereas the Most Honorable the Continental Congress, by a resolve of the 11th of July inst. empowered His Excellency General Washington to call forth the militia of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York and New-Jersey, for the purpose of expelling the enemy from the United States, as occasion should require; and it is recommended to the said states when so called, to send forward their militia with al possible expedition ..
Rhode Island. Council of War.Date: 1778]
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Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
Amédée ForestierDate: 1913Reference: 24263i
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French conscripts being put through physical exercises. Colour process print after A. Guilaume, 1896.
Albert GuillaumeDate: 1896Reference: 567160i- E-books
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State of Newhampshire. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty . An act for raising six hundred men towards compleating the battalions of this state in the Continental Army.
New HampshireDate: 1780]
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Italian families gather on the steps of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, to greet men who are returning home after military service. Engraving by A. Danse, 1882, after Frank W.W. Topham, 1879.
Topham, Frank William Warwick, 1838-1924.Date: [1882]Reference: 27156i