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Question: Why can I not find the answer to this anywhere!? Does anyone know!?!!?
I need the answers to these for tomorrow but I can't find them and no one seems to know!. Does anyone know who served in the French army during the reign of King Louis XIV!? I don't need names of specific people, I mean was it captured people from other places or nobles or what!. What kind of military technology did they have (guns, horses, etc!.)!? And what kind of system of communication did France have!? Like did they have mail or people who ran letters back and forth!.!.!.you get the idea!. Any information helps and if you know a website that has this information then include the link please!. Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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As with most European armies, the officer corps was drawn largely from the nobility (frequently younger sons who, not standing in line to inherit lands and titles, needed a respectable profession)!. The rank and file were French citizens, serving for pay!.
The technology - hmm!. Louis reigned for 72 years, and thus straddles two main military eras!. Mid seventeenth-century armies were pike-and-musket affairs!. The muskets were matchlocks; unwieldy, slow-firing and inaccurate!. This meant that there needed to be large bodies of pikemen to protect the musketeers!.
In the late seventeenth century, the flintlock musket was developed; as was the bayonet!. Infantry could now fire faster and more accurately (meaning that they could hit a barn door at a hundred paces, two times out of three), and could function as their own pikemen, so the true pikemen vanished!. By the end of Louis' reign the French army reached a stage which remained essentially unchanged until after Napoleon!.
And, of course, there were cavalry and artillery throughout!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Um!.!.!.ok!.
I believe his army was just called "the French Army"!. France allied with England and Holland, too!. But it wasn't forced!. And they had people deliver mail, as they did not have email or official mail carriers, this is the 1700s, it's not that difficult to assume!. They had cannons and guns!.
Sorry, I don't have a link!. I took AP Euro!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Try looking around at
http://www!.reference!.com/browse/Louis%20!.!.!.
in case some of the references or suggestions for further reading help point you in the right direction!.
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Have you tried the bookstore!? rather than on line!?
Amazon has several books on him and his history, I'd imagine they
are also in the store!.Www@QuestionHome@Com