Conscription

Conscription refers to a military body gaining recruits through making service compulsory.

Historic Instances of Conscription

• The Army of the Qin Dynasty was based around universal conscription
• The Roman Army was based around conscription until the Marian Reforms
• Various instances of Feudal Levies
• Ashigaru in Feudal Japan
• Starting with Peter the Great, the army of the Tsardom of Russia was primarilly composed of conscripts
• The Levee en Masse during the French Revolutionary Wars produced a vast army
• Both the North and the South during the American Civil War engaged in conscription, though this was unpopular.
• Conscription was commonplace during the Great War and Second World War