Discipline and Military Order Characterized Most Absolutist Armies

question 18

Multiple Choice

Discipline and military order characterized most absolutist armies.One notable exception was

• A) Louis XIV's scourging of the Palatinate.
• B) Frederick the Great's massacres in Silesia.
• C) James II's treatment of the defeated soldiers in Monmouth's Rebellion.
• D) Ivan the Terrible's invasion of Ethiopia.
• E) Cardinal Fleury's enforcement of the Edict of Nantes.

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