us had a standing army in june 1784.
when did the us have a standing army?
june 1784
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the ottoman standing army ("ḳapukulu"), also referred to as the "central army", consisted of three main divisions: the infantry, known as the janissary corps, the cavalry (sipahi) corps, known as the six regiments (altı bölük), and the artillery corps. unlike the provincial army, the standing army was based in istanbul and was subject to regular training and discipline, and was paid quarterly in cash salaries. the size of the army expanded dramatically beginning from the second half of the sixteenth century, more than doubling from 29,175 men in 1574 to 75,868 in 1609. following this growth its numbers remained relatively stable for the rest of the century. the payment of salaries to the standing army was by far the largest single expense in the imperial budget, and this growth in size was paired with a proportional growth in expenditures. by the seventeenth century the cost of the standing army could at times absorb more than half of the empire's entire central budget. as the army grew the nature of its relationship with the government began to shift, as the janissaries and cavalry increasingly became involved in imperial politics and administration.
transformation of the ottoman empire