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Roman Republican Legionary 298-105 BC (Paperback)
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Roman Republican Legionary 298-105 BC (Paperback)
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Loot Price R390
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Soon after the Caudine Forks fiasco in 321 BC, the tactical
formation adopted by the Roman Army underwent a radical change.
Introduced as part of the Servian reforms, the legion had
originally operated as a Greek-style phalanx. Now, however, the
Romans adopted the manipular system, whereby the legion was split
into distinct battle lines, each consisting of tactical subunits,
the maniples. Even though still a citizen militia, recruited from
property owners supplying their own war gear, it was the manipular
legion that faced Pyrrhus and his elephants, the Gauls and their
long swords, Hannibal and his tactical genius and the Macedonians
and their pikes to name but a few of its formidable opponents. This
book looks at the recruitment, training, weapons, equipment and
experiences of the legionary at the epoch of the middle Republic,
which opens with the last great war with the Samnites (Third
Samnite War, 298-290 BC) and closes with the Republic at the height
of its imperial glory after the victory in North Africa (Iugurthine
War 112-105 BC).
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