War foot

War foot , also a state of war or the mobile state of an army is an outdated term for the state in which the army is ready to open war after mobilization . The peace strength was called the peace foot.

If an army was put at war, the troop strength was increased to the required level of war and provided with the equipment necessary for the conduct of the war. The strength of the army or individual units was given in soldiers. Soldiers who were at war were now subject to military jurisdiction and usually received full field rations and more pay .

The word has in the German saying “mit jm./etw. stand at war "survived.

Individual evidence

↑ Documented by Joachim Heinrich Campe at the latest: Dictionary of the German language. Braunschweig, 1807-1811. Quoted from: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary. Vol. 5. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1873. (Around 1700 according to the troops of the Swabian Reichskreis )

literature

Hans Eggert Willibald von der Lühe: Militair-Conversations-Lexikon, Volume 4 . C. Brüggemann, 1834, p. 375 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Documented by Joachim Heinrich Campe at the latest: Dictionary of the German language. Braunschweig, 1807-1811. Quoted from: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary. Vol. 5. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1873. (Around 1700 according to the troops of the Swabian Reichskreis )