Nights watch irl

>>3142830
Do you mean like a garrison fully made out of outcasts and criminals, station near the border, to fight until death?

Do slave armies count?

US-Mexico border patrol

>>3142830
Templars

>>3142830
Knights of Malta protecting Christians from berber raiders.

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>>3142830
One of the 5 punishments of the Imperial Chinese legal system was penal posting in the frontier. They often moved to the Wall with their families and so a lot of penal fortresses along the Northern Border became villages.

>>3143082
nice meme there, knights were pirates in 14 and 15th century

>>3142830
Hadrian's Wall, but imagine if the Wall were to keep track of the wildlings numbers and protect Northern economic and livestock interests as well as keep the dead out.