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Imperial Roman barracks diagram (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Then again, soldiers sometimes just froze to death if their generals were incompetent. So from that perspective, even if it’s zero degrees and you have just a tent that is quite a luxury.

[18th and early 19th century AD troops sleeping in the rain without tents on the march intensifies]