Oh, we are a touch outside of my expertise for the late-18th century wool industry. What I can say is that the export of English/Welsh/Scottish wool, primarily to Flanders (and from there to the rest of Europe) becomes very significant in the 14th century...
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...because of the more efficient administration system constructed by the ancien regime in the proceeding century and a half. But it meant that the revolutionary government - and later Napoleon - by tapping into nationalist sentiment, might command a huge slice of...
...of all of that small-scale background textile production. And remember: all those men in the army would have needed to wear clothes if they were in the army or not, so the background production was there if the state could harness it...
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So in that sense, the really decisive thing about clothing Napoleon's armies was the same as arming them, or manning them: the combination of the more efficient administration system of the old regime with the unlimited demands a *national* government could make. /thread
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