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The Levée en Masse as a Revolution in Military Affairs
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The Levée en masse not only carries within it the concepts of Rousseau transmitted through the Revolutionaries, but also shows why the French in particular — and not the English, Prussians, or Russians — revolutionized military affairs with the formation of citizen-armies.
England's Political Secret
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What was the political secret that Englishmen were convinced they had found and that allowed them to be so free? A free nation was one that was not dependent upon the will of anyone, especially its own Monarch, writes Dr. François Charbonneau.