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. ...
Manipleis Latin for "Handful". An army unit composed of two 80 man Centuria. Three Maniples were usually joined to form a Cohort of six Centuries. The Maniple unit fell out of favor with the reforms of Marius in 106BC and the Cohort unit came into wider use. Legions composed of 10 ...
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...
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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 ...
Built in AD60 to support the Roman army in their campaign against Boudica and the Iceni, Lunt Roman Fort has now been fully excavated and is open to the public. The fantastic wooden gateway was built in the 1970s with the same tools and equipment that would have been used by the Romans...
Remains of bricks with the stamps of the legions legio II, legio VII and the cohort cohors VII Breucorum and a commemorative inscription of the legio II Adiutrix indicate significant imperial investment and subsidies for the construction of the colony (Leleković in press). Many of the ...
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 ...