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Levee en masse

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Le`vee´ en` masse´    (le`vã´ äN` mås´)
n.1.See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.


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Also, the people, or those of military age, could be conscripted in bulk--the levee en masse that long defeated more conventional armies.
Downloading democracy by Conquest, Robert / The National Interest
2) There is nothing on the massive size of Civil War armies, both as a reflection of Napoleon's utilization of the levee en masse and as a source of the Civil War's incredible scale of destruction.
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and ... by Martin, James Kirby / Journal of Social History
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