Editing War of the Austrian Succession (section)

==Strength of armies, 1740==
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! align="left" width="100" | Others
! align="left" width="100" | Militia
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| [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]] || 76,000 || 32,000 ||2,600  || 150 ||0 ||..  ||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896); ''Oesterreichischer Erbfolge-Krieg'', vol. 1:1, Verlag L. W. Seidel & Sohn, Wien, pp. 372, 432–434, 444–445</ref>
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|[[Electorate of Bavaria|Bavaria]]|| 36,000 || 4,000 || 200  || 0 || 0 ||..||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 589–590</ref>
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|[[Kingdom of France|France]] ||111,000 || 19,000|| 3,000|| ..|| 0 ||30,000||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 639, 642</ref>
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|[[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] || 19,000   ||7,000|| 2,000|| ..  ||6,000{{efn|[[Royal Marines]]}}||130,000 ||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 620–621, 626–627</ref>
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|[[Electorate of Hanover|Hanover]]||18,000||5,000|| 360|| 23|| 0||0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 610–611</ref>
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|[[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-Kassel]]|| 18,000|| 4,000|| 900 ||.. || ..||0 ||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, p. 605</ref>
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| [[Electorate of Cologne|Cologne]]|| 1,000||0||0||0||0 ||0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, p. 602</ref>
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|[[Electoral Palatinate|Palatinate]]||9,000|| 1,000|| 200|| 15|| 0 ||0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, p. 601</ref>
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| [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] || 76,000 ||22,000|| 1,200 ||43 ||  0 || 0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, p. 573</ref>
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|[[Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)|Sardinia]] || 41,000||5,000 ||..||..||0 || 0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 661–662</ref>
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| [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]]||20,000||  8,800||    600 ||  0 || 0||0||<ref>K. und K. Kriegsarchiv (1896), vol. 1:1, pp. 585–586</ref>
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