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Draft lottery

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Belgium
===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 oktober 1798 of Flemish and Brabant farmers against the French occupators. This due to the fact that the many deserters teamed up, and started a resistance army. They where defeated in the winter.
French occupation lasted until 1814.
Reference: [http://www.tenboome.webruimtehosting.net/tenboome/paginas/jaarboek 1997%201997-1998/de_conscriptie.htm 1]
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