The First Modern Armies

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first signs of modern military organization arose in the 15th century. The Turks invaded Europe and took numerous young boys for prisoners. They trained these juvenile hostages as soldiers. These soldiers became understood as the Janizaries. The Janizaries were the first real standing, or permanent, army of modern history. During the 17th century, many nations in Europe began to have standing armies, trained and organized into regiments. The soldiers in each regiment were subject to rules and punishment.
They began to dress normal uniforms. Each corps was mandated at a magnificent with the rank of colonel. These nobles often knew little about fighting. In battle the common would have to give mandates to every separate colonel, and this often reasoned many chaos. Frederick the Great, potentate of a German country shrieked Prussia, in the 18th centenary, was an of the 1st administrators to practice his army thoroughly. He made his small militia the best in Europe. Napoleon, whom some think the greatest of entire army commanders, invented many of the system that is secondhand in armies today. He had infantry, artillery and cavalry infantry in each division. Two or more divisions fashioned a corps. Napoleon could give commands through an systematized organized system of commanders, braining regiment, divisions, nd regiments. Army c ;ganization continued to develop in the 19th centenary. By that period nearly all of the European countries had universal military service.
This meant that every young man in these countries had to give a annual or 2 of his life to military exercise and duty. Before this, most of the soldiers were volunteers. In the American Civil War, the draft was used by the United States because the first time. Every young male picked in the draft had to serve unless he was unfit because duty. The 19th century too saw the heave of the excellent German army. The Germans used railroads to transport the soldiers from one area to dissimilar. They were the first to have a general staff. This meant they had a team of lofty officers who made maneuvers because battle, and made sure that all the groups in the army worked attach. In World War II, all the armies had general staffs.