. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ^^i^^^ V .e^. COSSACK LANCERS AND RUSSIAN GUARD-HOUSE. Fred asked what proportion of the male population was taken for thearmy every year by means of the conscription. As before stated, every able-bodied man is liable, was the reply; but it is generally found that a conscription of four in a thousand willproduce from ninety thousand to one hundred thousand men. On a peace THE COSSACKS. 145 footing the active array contains about twenty thou
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ^^i^^^ V .e^. COSSACK LANCERS AND RUSSIAN GUARD-HOUSE. Fred asked what proportion of the male population was taken for thearmy every year by means of the conscription. As before stated, every able-bodied man is liable, was the reply; but it is generally found that a conscription of four in a thousand willproduce from ninety thousand to one hundred thousand men. On a peace THE COSSACKS. 145 footing the active array contains about twenty thousand officers and fivehundred and thirty thousand men ; the reserve adds eight thousand andone hundred tliousand to tliese figures respectively, so that the total peacefooting is twenty-eight thousand officers and six hundred and thirty thou-sand men. And how much is the war footing? The war footing, according to the latest figures, to give it exactly, is41,551 officers and 1,1Y6,353 men. Add to this the whole able-bodiedmilitia liable to be called into service in case of necessity, and the avail-able war forces of Russia amount to about 3,200,000. On the peace f
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