In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America to escape conscription into Napoleon's army.
In 1856, it had 122 men who paid 1,909 piastres to escape conscription.
In World War I many fled to Canada to escape conscription because they were pacifists.
In 1857, 73 men aged 18 to 60 paid 2,336 piastres to escape conscription.
Many young dissidents, such as left-wing students and anti-war activists, were forced to leave the country so they could escape imprisonment or conscription.
To escape military conscription, students risk cerebral malaria fleeing through jungles to Thai border jails.
Many left-wing students and anti-war activists were forced to leave the country so they could escape conscription, imprisonment and torture by government forces.
Stéphan (tenor) seeks to escape conscription by the French army.
At the age of 16, he emigrated in 1881 to the US to escape conscription into the German Army.
He wouldn't have been pleased, even if it allowed him to escape conscription.
