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Show HAD FIRST DISCIPLINED ARMY. Egyptian King Credited With Much Military Foresight. Disciplined armies are to be traced In tho records of nil the great nations of antiquity through Home, Greece, Persia. Assyria and Kgypt. The Kg) ptlan Pharaoh, Rameses II, about 1100 II. C Is credited with the possession pos-session of the first disciplined army. Karly In llfo his mllltnry experiences with tho Arabians taught him tho necessity of having troops drilled In tho art of war. Ho established a warrior class, which becamo the nucleus of nn army numbering over 100,000 men, Including Includ-ing Infantr), cavalrj and' war chariots chari-ots With this army be Is said to havo mndc groat conquests In Asln from the Ganges to the Caspian, and It seems certain that at any rate It waB he who gnn Rgpt Its earliest mill-tar) mill-tar) organization nnd established the first regular!) disciplined array known to history. Chicago American. |