Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Trump's Latest Interview FIASCO" video.
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@Starsurfer74 . . . "defend your country in areas where they are really needed?" You mean now? At this moment? You think the troops in action are defending you? Man have you swallowed the cool-aid.
As for your other comment:
I always like it when someone displays both their ignorance and inability to do the least little search before they spout their knee-jerk opinions.
It's not an either or thing, they used the legion and slaves.
From Alberto Yagos on Quora -- literally the first response on Google. Are you that lazy?
. . . 'With so many engineers and men trained, when they made a Roman permanent fort they also built accessory buildings like baths, headquarters and even civil construction like several buildings outside the fort (cabannae), the ones for the legionaries’ families (before and after they were allowed to marry), aqueducts, bridges, roads, amphitheaters…
On his return Corbulo set his legionaries to digging a massive canal between the rivers Meuse and Rhine. The legions were immensely useful for infrastructure development; trained legionaries could be used directly for tasks as road building or seconded to lend their skills to civic provincial projects. For example, legionary engineers generally oversaw the civilian construction of amphitheatres and aqueducts
The Roman Empire
Parallels from Britain (where ancient timbers are better preserved) suggest that although the Romans were aware of the properties of various types of wood, military construction usually relied on local timber, even if inferior; from this we may infer that army units were probably cutting their own lumber. Vegetius (writing in the fourth century, but the statement may be true for earlier periods as well) confirms that 'the legion also has carpenters... and the other artisans necessary for the building of winter quarters'. Moreover, soldiers were undoubtedly utilised to assist in civil construction; we know for instance that the Fourth and Sixth Legions built roads in Navarra under Augustus, while the Seventh Legion helped construct the bridge at Aquae Flaviae in 79.
Roman Spain (Routledge Revivals)
Amphitheatres... many legionary examples produce direct evidence of having been constructed by the army
Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses
According to van Enckevort (2005), only the army and not the local elite possessed the means to transport the building stone used in these projects, and this claim appears to be borne out by the use of different forms of stone in foundations postdating Legio X Gemina's departure. Therefore, the occurrence of legionary roof tiles, Grauwacke, tuff and Norroy limestone in public buildings of the early second century is strong evidence that army personnel had a role in civil construction during the same period.
Domestic Cattle and Economic Change in the Roman Period Lower Rhineland: The Civitas Batavorum
The discovery of Legio XX stamped tiles referring to Viducius at a rural tile-works in Merseyside confirms him as a legionary contractor; close examination of tile sizes shows that contractors appear to have played a significant part in the production for at least two of the legions.
Legionary Tile Production in Britain | Britannia | Cambridge Core
The city of Timgad (Algeria) was supposedly mainly built by the army:
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