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Billeting
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Billeting is the accommodation of soldiers in houses of citizens and peasants. The system was imposed with varying degrees of coercion, and was used both in domestic and hostile territory. It predated the standing army that arose after the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. Short-term, ad hoc billeting, as a consequence and phenomenon of war, was common practice in the 16th century and the first half of the 17th. The issue of billeting was subjected to thoroughgoing regulation as troop formations rapidly grew in strength and as, in …

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Pröve, Ralf, “Billeting”, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Editors of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy, Andrew Gow. Original German Edition: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern herausgegeben von Friedrich Jaeger. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_SIM_018636>
First published online: 2015
First print edition: 20160907



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