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Also Known As draft • compulsory military service

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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia
August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
Roon, engraving by K. Tetzel, 1861
Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White
chief justice of United States
Jourdan, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Hilaire Le Dru
Jean-Baptiste, Count Jourdan
French military commander
Melvin Laird
American public official