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Gary Brueggeman's The Roman Army
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The Roman Camp
This entry was posted on May 5, 2021.
As an introduction to the topic of the Roman camp, we could not do better than this description from Livy. He puts this speech in... Read more -
The Infantry Fighting Model
This entry was posted on April 14, 2021.
The challenge is to translate these new ideas about how the Romans fought into visual images of what it might have looked like. One faces... Read more -
Elements of Roman Fighting
This entry was posted on April 6, 2021.
Sword or Spear? The generally accepted view has been that the legionary was primarily a sword fighter and that his use of the pilum was... Read more -
The Legion Formation
This entry was posted on October 30, 2020.
Considering that the Roman army was arguably the greatest military force the world has known, that pretty good eyewitness descriptions have come down to us... Read more -
Introduction to a New Model
This entry was posted on October 27, 2020.
The new infantry model At about the same time that I first developed The Roman Army web page Adrain Goldsworthy's book, The Roman Army At... Read more -
Attacking the marching column
This entry was posted on May 12, 2020.
Introduction "Getting there is half the fun" would not describe the Roman army's experience. Army travel was brutally hard work. In the previous pages the... Read more -
A day's march
This entry was posted on April 17, 2020.
This page is an attempt to reconstruct a 'typical' day's march for the army. Before showing the marching column there are a few basic considerations... Read more -
The order of march
This entry was posted on April 16, 2020.
The order in which the various units moved is uncertain. Delbrück, who devoted over 600 pages of his 4-volume work on the History of Warfare... Read more -
March: the whole army
This entry was posted on April 8, 2020.
In the previous section the elements that would constitute a single legion were explored. When several legions were assembled into an army there would be... Read more -
March: noncombatants and legion baggage
This entry was posted on April 7, 2020.
Scribes In addition the legion would have scribes to keep its records and accounts. I have found no sources that give an estimate of the... Read more
