Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc., that part of the organized national forces of which continuous service is not required except in time of war.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.
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All the old soldiers were to be recalled into the service; the forest-keepers and their assistants were to be armed, and from these elements the _landwehr_ was to be organized, and intrusted with the special task of defending the fortresses.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan
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He was therefore conducted to a distant fortress near the Russian frontier, and handed over to the captain of the landwehr, who received instructions to keep a strict guard over him.
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The officer of the landwehr attempted to withdraw from the hand that held him.
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Portugal, and Murat successor to the Emperor -- First levy of the landwehr in Austria -- Agents of the Hamburg 'Correspondent' --
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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There stood together under the leadership of the son of the Bavarian King and fought, with equal blades, troops of all ages, active, reservists, and landwehr.
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In the evening the enemy's Moscow Grenadier Corps was defeated by our landwehr and reserve troops.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various
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There is no doubt but we shall end by having a landwehr very different from any militia to which the subdued spirit of the French people could give birth.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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"Now I say, the most conceited person in the world is a district major of the landwehr at forty-two."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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It was in the midst of the operations of the Spanish war, which Napoleon directed in person, that he learned Austria had for the first time raised the landwehr.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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