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SHaT198420 Aug 2019 4:51 p.m. PST

>>For those just getting into Napoleonics, landwehr are effectively militia, receiving basic training on a rushed schedule, armed as available, often inconsistently.

Nice figures and show, but I'd take exception to your broad generalisation of contempt for the Germanic landwehr class.

Germany (in all its forms) had a renaissance and the military finally embraced 'populist' feeling and heavily recruited by basic conscription, 'reservists' and kept 'trained and experienced' former military on hand to guide the newcomers.

Prussia avoided Napoloeons strategic limitation by using rotation of levy's and expedienced non-combatants to form 'ad-hoc' units, that were initially only to fill up formal army regiments. That turned over to using the Landwehr, capable, trained and efficient (to say enthusiastic as well) formations in their own right.

Post 1812, the flow of national moral outrage and civilian enthusiasm against the French (Napoleon) was greatly enhanced by the Landwehr.
regards davew

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