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Odin2005

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4. the vast majority LIVED in the country back in the day.

Reply to dimbear (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 27, 2012, 07:42 AM

Jul 2012

Some parts of Germany lost half their population during the Thirty-Years War because of mercenary armies ravaging the countryside.

The kind of warfare you are thinking of is that of the professional armies of the 1700s before the French Revolution.

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There was a time in history when armies would meet out in the country. dimbear Jul 2012 #1

I think a lot of that had to do with the nature of warfare in those days. Adsos Letter Jul 2012 #2

WWI was mostly fought out in the open. Afterward dimbear Jul 2012 #3

WWI was fought in the open because WWI generally *made* things open Posteritatis Jul 2012 #5

the vast majority LIVED in the country back in the day. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #4