Levée en masse (ləve ɑ̃ mɑs, which is, when translated into English, essentially `mass uprising` or `mass mobilization.` The concept originated as a French term for mass conscription during the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly for the one from 16 August 1793. However, its use as a military tactic predates this by an untold number o...
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• See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.
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(from the article `French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars`) ...Britain formed the first of seven coalitions that would oppose France over the next 23 years. In response to reverses at the hands of the First ... ...for an additional 300,000 soldiers, with quotas to be provided by each département. Finally, in August 1793 it decr...
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Le·vée' en` masse' (l
e *va' äN` mȧs'). [ French] See
Levy in mass , under
Levy ,
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Conscription.
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