corps
Sign in to saveCorps (; plural corps ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon, the formation was formally introduced March 1, 1800, when Napoleon ordered General Jean Victor Marie Moreau to divide his command into four corps. Before it came into force in 1800, the idea of corps was already in its infancy (for example, Jourdan's Army of Sambre and Meuse in 1795 was divided into 3 corps), but it could not take a definite form due to the relatively small size of the individual armies. Only Moreau granted the corps legal
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A corps is an organizational unit that was popularized as a military innovation by Napoleon, who formally introduced it in 1800 as a way to divide large armies into smaller, more manageable formations. The term comes from French and Latin words meaning "body," and while the concept existed in earlier armies, it only became a standard military structure once armies grew large enough to require such division.
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- American Civil War
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- Britain
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Corps (; plural corps ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon, the formation was formally introduced March 1, 1800, when Napoleon ordered General Jean Victor Marie Moreau to divide his command into four corps. Before it came into force in 1800, the idea of corps was already in its infancy (for example, Jourdan's Army of Sambre and Meuse in 1795 was divided into 3 corps), but it could not take a definite form due to the relatively small size of the individual armies. Only Moreau granted the corps legal status in 1800; Napoleon finally developed them in 1805. The size of a corps varies greatly, but two to five divisions and anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000 are the numbers stated by the US Department of Defense.
Within military terminology a corps may be: an operational formation, sometimes known as a field corps, which consists of two or more divisions, such as the I Corps (Grande Armée)|, later known as ("First Corps") of Napoleon I's ); an administrative corps (or mustering) – that is a specialized branch of a military service (such as an artillery corps, an armoured corps, a signal corps, a medical corps, a marine corps, or a corps of military police); or, in some cases, a distinct service within a national military (such as the United States Marine Corps). These usages often overlap.