Template:Did you know nominations/Marie-Louise (conscript)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:52, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Marie-Louise (conscript)

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... that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars France was conscripting men shorter than 5 feet (1.5 m) tall? Source: "from 1809 to 1814 the standard was merely nominal, as the conscripts, if not labouring under some other defect, were admitted into the ranks, how diminutive soever their stature might be, and often when under five feet in height" from History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. W. Blackwood. 1870. p. 142.
- ALT1:... that in 1813 Napleon ordered the conscription of more than a million men? Source: sum of the numbers in the article under the conscription orders of 1813 (1.14 million), taken from : Largeaud, Jean-Marc (2012). "Autour des « Maries-Louises »". Le Télémaque. 2 (43): 42–60. doi:10.3917/tele.042.0042.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Edwin S. Votey (3/3)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:36, 30 January 2020 (UTC).

GTG. Nice article, if essentially relying on one source. Both hooks check out, but the original is best imo. Long enough, refs ok, new enough in mainspace & seems neutral. Main source in French. Johnbod (talk) 15:38, 3 February 2020 (UTC)