Conscription
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...personnel for service in the armed...the Napoleonic Wars. The institution...outbreak of World War I, Great Britain...in World War II; it was abolished...to the Civil War, conscription...sides in that war and in most...scale U.S. wars since, often...a policy of selective conscription...