Cohort IV: Another of the four weak cohorts. Cohort V: Again, no special designation. Cohort VI: Made up of "The Finest of the Young Men". Cohort VII: One of the four weak cohorts and a likely place to find trainees and raw recruits. Cohort VIII: Contained "The Selected Troops". Co...
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cohorts of 500 men. A cohort was commmanded by a tribune, together with two equestrians. The guard itself was commanded by the praetorian prefects, who were equestrians rather than of senatorial rank. A sign of the exclusion of the mighty senate from certain key positions by the emperor....
This early Roman army under the king, was made up of approximately three thousand men from the three tribes of Rome: the Ramnenses (named after Romulus himself), the Titiensies (named after Titus Tatius), and the Lucerenses (name origin unknown). The men from these tribes formed one, b...
–Floggingin front of the century, cohort or legion –Whippingwith theflagrum(flagellum,flagella), or “short whip” – a much more brutal punishment than simple flogging. The “short whip” was used by slave volunteers,volones, who constituted the majority of the army in the later years of...
Prefect of the First Cohort of Tungrians, dated to between first and second centuries. The extensive assemblage of leather artefacts, especially shoes is one of the largest discovered on any Roman site, but Vindolanda has also provided the discovery of the oldest Roman boxing gloves c.a. 120...
At the onset, Augustus recruited 9 cohorts of about 500 men each, essentially equal to the size of an imperial legion. Each cohort was eventually swelled to equal that of the double-strengthfirst cohort of an Imperial Legion, so that each cohort, from this time on, was generally made up ...
A cohort of 500 auxiliary soldiers would have been stationed here by the early to mid 2nd Century AD. However, around 155-158 AD the fort beside the river had been abandoned and the soldiers sent to the north, probably to help strengthen and guard Hadrian’s Wall, or the Anto-nine Wall...
In the later stages of Roman rule the comes Britanniarum, or “count of the Britains,” commanded the field army. Roman army and fortifications York, EnglandView of York Minster (background), York, England. The city's medieval walls incorporate remnants of the original Roman fortifications.(...
Hadrian's Wall is the most important monument built by Roman army in Britain and was the most heavily fortified border in the Roman Empire. Roman emperor Hadrian came to Britain in 122 AD and ordered the construction of the most ambitious fortifications ever built by Romans - a 120 kilometers...