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| Tango01 | 26 Nov 2018 12:56 p.m. PST |
…. napoleon's attempts to make his campaigns self-financing ""You must make it your guiding principle that the war must feed the war," Such was Napoleon's recommendation to Marshal Soult when he appointed the latter général en chef of the Army of the South in Spain. The Duke of Dalmatia was also told to take "the most e?cient measures possible to provide for the pay and material needs of your army". The theory expounded by Napoleon was that his campaigns abroad should be self-?nancing. The three methods used to achieve this goal were: the seizure of money and property (so-called ‘ordinary contributions' or saisies ordinaires); the ?nancial gain derived from peace treaties; and the amounts saved via the policy of using allied troops or by having French soldiers maintained by the allied states in which they were stationed…."
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| ConnaughtRanger | 27 Nov 2018 1:08 a.m. PST |
That's going to send Brechtel198 into overdrive. |
| Tango01 | 27 Nov 2018 11:23 a.m. PST |
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gets started with Flintloque.
