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The Nine Years' War and the British Army, 1688-1697
John Charles Roger ChildsJohn Childs
其他書名
The Operations in the Low Countries
出版Manchester University Press, 1991
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
ISBN07190346129780719034619
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=q_3HAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This is a description of how the Nine Years War affected the British Army, both in its actual operations in the theatre of war and in its size, operative capacity and costs. This war brought about radical changes in the sizes and the associated costs of the armies of Britain, France, Austria and the United Provinces in a relatively short period. For example, the size of field armies grew from an average of about 25,000 men during the Thirty Years' War to an average of about 100,000 men in 1695 during the Nine Years War. The costs of sustaining such huge field forces in terms of food, equipment and pay brought Britain and France, in particular, fiscal crisis and a shattered economy respectively, after the peace.