CONSCRIPTION

or what is termed were Compulsory Military Service—although the strictly, the term is applicable only to selection by lot—was introduced in came modern times by Napoleon in 1798, and federal adopted by Pru ia in the reconstruction changes of its army after Jena, and after the Franco-Pru ian War, 1870-1, by all the of great Continental powers. In_ the forests Amer. Civil War both sides had_ resort Private to conscription, and when the United sites States entered the World War com pul became to serve in the army was applied the principle of the selective draft.