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PP-P.783.262
27 Dec 1783:22 (13/1639)
London, Sept. 30. The manner of recruiting the army in
Russia, is the most singularly arbitrary of any in the whole
world perhaps, and is done as follows. When any regiment
wants recruiting, or when new levies are to be raised, the
officers who are appointed to that business, go into the
chief towns and villages of the several provinces, where a
herald by sound of trumpet summonses all the inhabitants
together, at which meeting a day at no great distance, is
appointed for all the men from 18 to 40 years of age, to
meet at a particular place,
. . . [selection and recruitment described]
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