When & what are the first recorded peacetime uses of soldiers?
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I do not remember the source but I have read that in Roman Empire soldiers were sometimes used to harvest grapes.
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In the Roman Empire soldiers were often used to work on various construction projects that had military and/or peacetime uses, such as Roman roads, for example.
So the earliest examples, if there are any earlier ones, would have to be pre-Roman and thus dated BC and not AD.
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