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Landwehr
[ lahnt-veyr ]
noun
- (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
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The Landwehr of the second class consists of all from thirty-two to forty years who have quitted the first class.
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When assembled for drill, the Landwehr receive the same pay as the regular army.
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I find that strange racial brooding and melancholy in the diary of a sub-officer of the Landwehr.
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We saw a body of 3000 Prussian landwehr enter Brussels, shortly before we left the city.
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He subsequently entered the Prussian Landwehr and served for a year in the royal guard.
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