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verb
- 1. enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services: "they were conscripted into the army"
noun
- 1. a person enlisted compulsorily: "army conscripts"
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19 hours ago · Seleucid Syria in early 124 BC under Alexander II Zabinas, who ruled the country with the exception of the city of Ptolemais. After the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid Empire became increasingly unstable. Frequent civil wars made central authority tenuous at best.
19 hours ago · Marxism ( German: Marxismus) is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation.
19 hours ago · The Second Chimurenga also known as the Zimbabwean War of Independence as well as the Rhodesian Bush War, [13] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe ). [n 2] [24] The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white ...
19 hours ago · The Royal Siamese Armed Forces was the military arm of the Siamese monarchy from the 12th to the 19th centuries. It refers to the military forces of the Sukhothai Kingdom, the Ayutthaya Kingdom, the Thonburi Kingdom and the early Rattanakosin Kingdom in chronological order. The Siamese army was one of the dominant armed forces in Southeast Asia.
Jul 10, 2024 · On 2018 German Remembrance Day, eleven million Germans became veterans, most of them probably without even noticing. Only the readers of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper learned of the new definition in the headline, condensed to the simple formula: “Signed and sealed!
19 hours ago · Kingdom of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain ...
