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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8881869" data-attributes="member: 6790260">You seem to be of the belief that someone who became an admiral or general wouldn't already be from a noble family.The idea of meritocratic promotion took a long, long, long time to take root and fully establish itself as the way to do things. It wasn't until the 17th and 18th centuries that you started seeing European nations truly embracing widespread meritocratic promotion in the armed forces and civil services. During the high middle ages, meritocratic promotion was by far the exception, not the rule. Hence, if someone is the general of an army...it's probably because they either come from a noble house, or have been appointed to a noble house.</blockquote>