Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl painting
THE RHINE MUTINY HAD BROKEN OUT IN SYMPATHY WITH a mutiny among the Balkan forces. The soldiers* disappointment with their bequests under Augustus's will-a mere four months' bounty of pay, three gold pieces a man -aggravated certain long-standing grievances; and they reckoned that the insecurity of Tiberius's position would force
Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival I painting
to meet any reasonable demands they made, in order to win their favour. These demands included a rise in pay, service limited to sixteen years, and a relaxation of camp discipline. The pay was certainly insufficient: the .soldiers had to arm and equip themselves out of it and prices had risen. And certainly the exhaustion of military reserves had kept thousands of soldiers with the Colours who should have been discharged years before, and veterans had been recalled to the Colours who were quite unfit for service. And, certainly too, the detachments formed from recently liberated slaves were such poor fighting material that Tiberius had considered