A Well Regulated Militia Political and Military Organisation in Pre-Napoleonic Switzerland (1550-1799)

The period sees the transition of the ordinary fighter from feudal levy, yeoman or city burgher militia, to subject in an absolute polity, to today’s concept of the free citizen in a democratic state. In the period, the Swiss Confederacy was the only major polity that was not monarchical, but republ...

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Main Author: Gassmann Jürg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2016-04-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
Subjects:
war
Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/apd.2016.4.issue-1/apd-2016-0002/apd-2016-0002.xml?format=INT