LANDWEHR  , a See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German word meaning " See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country "; but the See also:

• TERM

term as applied to an insurrectional See also:

• MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia is very See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient, and " lantveri " are mentioned in Baluzii Capitularia, as quoted in See also:

• HALLAM
• HALLAM, ROBERT (d. 1417)

Hallam's See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle Ages, i . 262, loth ed . The landwehr in See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia was first formed by a royal See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of the 17th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1813, which called up all men capable of bearing arms between the ages of eighteen and See also:

• FORTY

forty-five, and not serving in the See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, for the defence of the country . After the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace of 1815 this force was made an integral See also:

• PART

part of the Prussian army, each See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

brigade being composed of one See also:

• LINE

line and one landwehr See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment . This, however, retarded the mobilization and diminished the value of the first line, and by the re-organization of 1859 the landwehr troops were relegated to the second line . In See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria the landwehr is a totally different organization . It is in reality a See also:

• CADRE (Fr. for a frame, from the Lat. quadrum, a square)

cadre force existing alongside the regular army, and to it are handed over such recruits as, for want of vacancies, cannot be placed in the latter . In Switzer-See also:

• LAND

land the landwehr is a second line force, in which all citizens serve for twelve years, after passing twelve in the " Auszug " or See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field army .