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barracks
V. (often be barracked) provide (soldiers) with accommodations in a building or set of buildings: the granary in which the platoons were barracked.
billet n. Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
1 a shelter for troops.
2 a personnel position or assignment that may be filled by one person.
v.
to quarter troops....
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billeting Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
The accommodation of soldiers in civilian lodgings or public houses. Until the advent of purpose-built barracks, billeting was the
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
(1651–1716).Lawyer and Whig politician. Called to the bar in 1676, Somers made his name as an outstanding barrister. He was elected in 1689 to the Convention Parliament and was ...
Mutiny Act
Before the Glorious Revolution, James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without ...
