the.com/napoleonic billeting
an army that eats your food, sleeps in your bed, and calls it liberation.
means the practice of forcing civilians to house and feed soldiers, used systematically by napoleon's armies to move fast without supply trains.
from french armies under napoleon abandoned slow baggage trains and instead lived off occupied land, quartering troops directly in local homes and inns, a system formalized from the levee en masse era of the 1790s onward.
speed tricklet armies march faster than any rival could supply
resentment enginefueled anti-french uprisings across spain and germany
legal echopartly why the us third amendment bans it
for instance
peninsular war spain — billeting sparked guerrilla revolt starting 1808
grande armee russia 1812 — billeting collapsed once towns were burned empty
confederation of the rhine — german states forced to house french garrisons 1806 onward