Increase in Military Manpower, 1470-1710
Date |
Spain |
Dutch |
France |
England |
Sweden |
Russia |
1470 |
20,000 |
40,000 |
25,000 |
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1550 |
150,000 |
50,000 |
20,000 |
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1590 |
200,000 |
20,000 |
80,000 |
30,000 |
15,000 |
|
1630 |
300,000 |
50,000 |
150,000 |
45,000 |
35,000 |
|
1650 |
100,000 |
100,000 |
70,000 |
70,000 |
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1670 |
70,000 |
110,000 |
120,000 |
63,000 |
130,000 |
|
1700 |
50,000 |
100,000 |
400,000 |
87,000 |
100,000 |
170,000 |
Source:Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, "Introduction," in The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, Geoffrey Parker and Lesley Smith, eds., (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), p.14.