Question by always curious: How did Europe manage to field hundreds of thousands of armed men during the Napoleonic Wars?

Seems to me suddenly sending 500,000 men from France into Russia would have left many farms and villages devoid of men to work the fields, mines, etc. Or did Europe have a huge population growth between 1775 and 1810?




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Answer by bonzo_dog
Napoleon didn't just get his soldiers from France -- some of them came from vassal states, particularly in Germany.

Besides, at the time France was the most populous country in Europe.

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