Introduction / Frederick C. Schneid -- Conscription in France during the era of Napoleon / Harold D. Blanton -- Meeting the French challenge : conscription in Prussia, 1807-1815 / Dierk Walter -- Conscription in Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries : "for faith, Tsar and Motherland" / Alexander Mikaberidze -- Conscription in the Habsburg Empire to 1815 / Arthur Mark Boerke -- The recruitment of seamen for the British Navy, 1793-1815 : "Why don't you raise more men?" / Kevin McCranie -- Conscription in Spain in the Napoleonic era / Charles J. Esdaile -- Conscription and desertion in Napoleonic Italy, 1802-1814 / Alexander Grab -- Recruitment and conscription in the Kingdom of Westphalia : "The Phalladium of Westphalian freedom" / Michael F. Pavković -- Filling the ranks : recruitment and conscription for the Danish-Norwegian army during the Napoleonic era / Karsten Skjold Petersen -- Manning the armed forces : the Swedish solution / Fredrik Thisner -- Conscription in Mehmed Ali's Egypt : a Napoleonic legacy / John P. Dunn -- Napoleonic conscription and the militarization of Europe? / Frederick C. Schneid.