08-14-2007, 01:38 AM
Ave Civitas,
I have a question on the process of settling retired soldiers.
I assume that when emperors signed retirement papers they were for mass retirements. Whole auxillia units perhaps who had completed their required years in uniform.
What I don't know is how?
When several hundred are retired at a wack and sent to populate a colonia, how was that done?
I can imagine a sudden need for new housing.
I then have some questions:
1. Were the soldiers sent there and then required to build their own homes? If they were, then where were they housed until a new home could be built?
2. Were soldiers sent to cities, put up in temporary camps while they collectively built their homes?
3. Were there sufficient housing available for these new settlers when they arrived (was someone sent there ahead of time to build the homes needed?
4. Were they all required to settle outside the city walls or were there enough insulae apartments available for them?
5. Were they just given plots of land and told here is your land, have at it.
6. In America during the great depression, there were workers who went out into the Wilderness and built farm houses, then moved the dispossessed into them.
Does anyone know where I can start looking for answers to these questions?j
Thank you very much.
Me.
I have a question on the process of settling retired soldiers.
I assume that when emperors signed retirement papers they were for mass retirements. Whole auxillia units perhaps who had completed their required years in uniform.
What I don't know is how?
When several hundred are retired at a wack and sent to populate a colonia, how was that done?
I can imagine a sudden need for new housing.
I then have some questions:
1. Were the soldiers sent there and then required to build their own homes? If they were, then where were they housed until a new home could be built?
2. Were soldiers sent to cities, put up in temporary camps while they collectively built their homes?
3. Were there sufficient housing available for these new settlers when they arrived (was someone sent there ahead of time to build the homes needed?
4. Were they all required to settle outside the city walls or were there enough insulae apartments available for them?
5. Were they just given plots of land and told here is your land, have at it.
6. In America during the great depression, there were workers who went out into the Wilderness and built farm houses, then moved the dispossessed into them.
Does anyone know where I can start looking for answers to these questions?j
Thank you very much.
Me.
AKA Tom Chelmowski
Historiae Eruditere (if that is proper Latin)
Historiae Eruditere (if that is proper Latin)