Commanders of roughly 1500 to 1774: the generals of Great Britain's eighteenth century wars and the other centralized gunpowder-era states this atlas has minted commanders for. Belongs here: a commander active before the age of mass national conscription. Does not belong here: a commander active in a nineteenth or twentieth century national army, who belongs to Modern.
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1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence, end-year clause
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
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