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Draft lottery

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Belgium
Draft lottery is called ''conscription'' (conscriptie). It was started by the French Law of 5 september 1798, known as the law ''Jourdan-Delbrel''. All young man had to conscribe to the army service. From the resulting list, a lottery was held to decide on the contingent that effectively had to go under active duty.
Noteworthy is that this formed one of the reasons for the [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerenkrijg Farmers War] on 12 October 1798, of Flemish and Brabant farmers against the French occupiers. This was in part a consequence of the fact that the many deserters teamed together, and started a resistance army. They where were defeated in the winter of that year.
The French occupation lasted until 1814.
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