Note 1 — PART IX. MILITARY SYSTEM AND SCHOOLS IN SWITZERLAND.
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Infantry, including Rifles, 89,366; Artillery, 10,366; Cavalry, 2,869; Engineers, 1,530.
2 The officers, non-commissioned officers, and corporals, constitute what is called the “cadre.”
3 Federal and cantonal.
4 The rifle shooting, cricket matches, and other popular sports of England seems to be overlooked by Professor Simonson.
5 He alludes here to the Neufchatel difficulty. This canton had been heretofore under the sovereignty of Prussia, and a handful of royalists made the attempt to sever it from all connection with the confederacy. The people defeated them and voted themselves independent. Switzerland assisted them and Prussia gave up whatever rights she might have had.
6 The Italian.
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