Compulsory enlistment into national or military service
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An essay to revive and encourage military exercises, skill and valour among the sons of God's people in New-England A sermon preached before the Honourable Artillery-Company in Boston, June 5th. 1732. Being the day of their election of officers; and now made publick at their request, and at the desire of many others. By Oliver Peabody, A.M. Pastor of the church in Natick. [Nine lines of Scripture texts].
Peabody, Oliver, 1698-1752.Date: 1732- E-journals
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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 ..
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The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army . Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. [Five lines from Cato] Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
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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