The Military System of the Romans - Couverture rigide

Harkness, Albert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857065033 ISBN 13 : 9780857065032

Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Caesar's Roman Army-a concise reference

This concise book is an essential handbook to the Roman Army of the Gallic War period. Its compact nature belies the wealth of information contained within its pages which is delivered by the author with the objective of imparting the most information with least pre-amble. This makes this book ideal for all students of the period, re-enactors, war gamers, modellers, theatre production and costumiers etc. It is full of illustrations of dress, uniforms, weapons, military engines etc as well as layouts for military camps of various sizes, lines of march and battle and cross section diagrams for military works and defensive positions. Also included are several battle maps which demonstrate the Roman Army on campaign and on the battlefield. Virtually every aspect of Caesar's military machine is considered in the pages of this thorough book making it a fine and easily accessible reference tool. Recommended. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

THE MILITARY SYSTEM OF THE ROMANS. 1, The Roman legion, legio*, was an organized body of Roman soldiers. It contained originally 3,000 infantry and 300 cavalry; but its numerical strength was subsequently increased. In the time of Caesar it consisted entirely of heavy-armed infantry, and probably numbered from 3,500 to 5,000 men.1 Caesar's Army in Gaul. 2. Caesar's army in Gaul consisted of two distinct parts, the Roman legions and the auxiliaries. 1. The Roman legions consisted of heavy-armed soldiers.2 2. The auxiliaries,3 consisting of foreign soldiers of various nationalities, served either as cavalry 4 or as light-armed infantry.5 3. The entire force at the command of Caesar during his Gallic campaigns seldom, if ever, exceeded 70,000 men. Beginning his work with a single legion, the tenth, afterwards so famous in the Gallic wars, he proceeded at once to raise re-enforcements, and soon found himself at the head of 1 a legion -whose numbers were fully up to the normal sta

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leonaur Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857065033
• ISBN 13: 9780857065032
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible