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...
The one we have here starts with a hand (manus) device at the top (suggesting it might also be used as a manipular standard, or to represent a whole cohort), then a cross-piece with streamers, six medallions (phalerae) and a crescent moon (lunula), with a tassel at the bottom. ...
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The camp was then used again about four years later by a much smaller cohort of soldiers, about 10 percent of the previous garrison. This second phase reduced the size of the fort, and many buildings were demolished to allow space for a 100-foot-diameter “gyrus,” or horse training ring...
Vespasian was near completion of the directive set him in summer AD 43 by the Army Commander, Plautius: to subjugate Southern England. In AD 45, Vespasian may well have split his Legion again, as I suggested, took place in the previous year. Maybe the first cohort again provided the scree...
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 ...
(also known as Turret 26B) is one of the best preserved turrets on the line of Hadrian's Wall. It is located east from Roman Cilurnum fort in Chesters, and west from the Onnum fort in Haltonchesters. It was built by soldiers from the ninth cohort of the Twentieth Victorious Valerian...
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...
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The maniple vs. the cohort (image:The Making of the Roman Army, p. 65, Lawrence Keppie) But perhaps one of the biggest reforms Gaius Marius made, and one which won him a lot of enemies in the upper classes, was to open up the ranks of Rome’s legions to thecapite censi, that ...