. The Great war. in France. Transporting the British Expeditionary Force. Head-quarters of the Germany army corps. Military administration of Germanrailway service. Secrecy of military movements. As we have had occasion to notice in preceding chap-ters, the fundamental principle underlying all moderncontinental armies is universal military service. The FrenchRevolution inspiring the whole people with a frenzy ofpatriotic enthusiasm produced the levee en masse, whichswept aside the antiquated systems of the eighteenth cen-tury, when armies were made up of comparatively smallbodies of highly-tra
. The Great war. in France. Transporting the British Expeditionary Force. Head-quarters of the Germany army corps. Military administration of Germanrailway service. Secrecy of military movements. As we have had occasion to notice in preceding chap-ters, the fundamental principle underlying all moderncontinental armies is universal military service. The FrenchRevolution inspiring the whole people with a frenzy ofpatriotic enthusiasm produced the levee en masse, whichswept aside the antiquated systems of the eighteenth cen-tury, when armies were made up of comparatively smallbodies of highly-trained soldiers, and heralded the nationalarmies of the present. But Prussia in the hour of herhumiliation was the first to adopt a short-term, universalmilitary service intended to provide military training for allable-bodied citizens by a continuous process, so as to pro-duce the nation in arms. The slowness of her possible enemies to appropriatethis basic principle of military service gave Prussia an 428 $r/y*i. r ^ -^ 11 l -: ~ ^ « >- <*Z=£ if. u •4 .-Jy *•.
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