Miscellaneous Military Items: Populace under Arms, 1805

Britain

Population: 15,000,000
Proportion Capable of Bearing Arms: 3,750,000
Army: 266,621
Navy: 120,000
Total Under Arms: 386,621
Populace Under Arms: 1 in 10 of male active population.
Add: Volunteers: 385,151
Sea Fencibles: 30,000
Grand Total Under Arms: 803,772
Populace Under Arms: 1 in 5 of male active population.


Ratio of male active population under arms, other countries:

France: 1 in 14 of male active population.
Austria: 1 in 14 of male active population.
Russia: 1 in 14 of male active population.
Prussia: 1 in 10 of male active population.


SOURCE: Cookson, J.E. The British Armed Nation, 1793-1815 Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.

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