The world: historical and actual . nd the secret of Prussian superi-ority in war over botli Austria and Fiance. Therelative military strength of these nations, by num-bers and expenditure, are given in a subsequenttable, but the rjower of education admits of no sta-tistical measurement. Every German is liable tomilitary duty, and must enter the armyat the ageof twenty years. After three years of actual servicehe is put upon the reserve roll, in time of peace forfour years. At the expiration of that time he isenrolled in the landwehr,or militia, for five years,and then finally in the landsturm,
The world: historical and actual . nd the secret of Prussian superi-ority in war over botli Austria and Fiance. Therelative military strength of these nations, by num-bers and expenditure, are given in a subsequenttable, but the rjower of education admits of no sta-tistical measurement. Every German is liable tomilitary duty, and must enter the armyat the ageof twenty years. After three years of actual servicehe is put upon the reserve roll, in time of peace forfour years. At the expiration of that time he isenrolled in the landwehr,or militia, for five years,and then finally in the landsturm, a home-guard,until the age of fifty. Prussia has an area of 137,060 square miles, anda population in 1880 of 27,278,911, which is aboutequal to the total of the other states constitutingthe German Empire, the entire area of the empirebeing 212,091 square miles, population December 1,1875, 42,727,360. The system of military pro-scription is a constant incentive to emigration,and very materially lessens the population ofthe v ~ v #> m,:a^i»^iife-^<: ^fe ^^fj ¥
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