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The Prussian Army had its roots in the core mercenary forces of Brandenburg-Prussia during the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Elector Frederick William developed it into a viable standing army, while King Frederick William I of Prussia dramatically increased its size and improved its doctrines.
- Ranging between 70,000 and 700,000 during the period.
- Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William I endowed the Prussian state with its military and bureaucratic character. He raised the army to 80,000 men (equivalent to 4 percent of the population) and geared the whole organization of the state to the military machine. One half of his army consisted of hired foreigners.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Prussia ( / ˈprʌʃə /, German: Preußen, German: [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions. It formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree ...
La Academia Militar Prusiana (también citada en ocasiones como la Academia Prusiana de la Guerra, la Academia Militar de Berlín, en su forma original como la Preußische Kriegsakademie o incluso la Academia de Guerra Prusiana) era la academia militar del reino de Prusia.
The Franco-German War of 1870–71 established Prussia as the leading state in the imperial German Reich. William I of Prussia became German emperor on January 18, 1871. Subsequently, the Prussian army absorbed the other German armed forces, except the Bavarian army, which remained autonomous in peacetime.
In 1740 Frederick inherited a standing army of 83,000 men; when he died, this figure had risen to 190,000 (though of these only about 80,000 were Prussian subjects). Under him it remained a force of peasants and of numerous foreign recruits obtained often by outright kidnapping, officered by landowners.
5 de ene. de 2013 · The Prussian Army from Reform to War; By Manfred Messerschmidt; Edited by Stig Förster, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Jorg Nagler, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany; Book: On the Road to Total War; Online publication: 05 January 2013; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052474.012
