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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulla View Post
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    The Roman soldiers were mostly from outside Italy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam the Rify View Post
    The Roman soldiers were mostly from outside Italy.
    Yeah its a well known fact that they were Gheg Highlanders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Werewolf View Post
    Yeah its a well known fact that they were Gheg Highlanders.
    Ghegh troll, go back to Ghegland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam the Rify View Post
    The Roman soldiers were mostly from outside Italy.
    During the late stages of Empire, probably. But it's very difficult that they were from outside Italy during the Monarchy and the Repubblican period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam the Rify View Post
    The Roman soldiers were mostly from outside Italy.
    Not in the early stages of the Roman empire. The Romans did rely on a huge force of auxiliary regiments from newly conquered regions, but still native Latin speaking formed a huge chunk of the Imperial army.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia..._size_and_cost

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    Roman legionary – Soldier Profile



    Clothing and Jewellery

    Military tunic worn as standard
    Leather belt, baldric, and apron straps often with personalised metallic decorations
    Scabbard, often with personalised decoration
    Hobnailed sandals
    Weaponry

    Throwing spear with pyramidal head and long metal shank (pilum)
    Short, stabbing sword (gladius)
    Dagger (pugio)
    Armour

    Iron helmet with brow-ridge, cheek-pieces, and back-plate for extra protection
    Chain-mail tunic with additional shoulder pads
    Rectangular, plywood body-shield (scutum) with metal boss and painted regimental insignia
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    The Roman Imperial Army was a fully professional force of long-service volunteers, half of them citizen legionaries, half non-citizen auxiliaries. The legionaries formed the heavy infantry.

    They were organised into legions of 5,000 men, each subdivided into 10 cohorts, each in turn subdivided into six centuries. The cohort (500 men) was therefore the equivalent of a modern battalion, the century (80 men) that of a modern company.

    The legionary, who served for 20 years, was rigorously trained, superbly equipped, and highly motivated by pay, bonuses, a range of perks and facilities, and a strongly developed esprit de corps.

    Legionaries wore full body-armour, either a mail-shirt with additional shoulder pads or, increasingly, the new lorica segmentata formed of strips of steel strapped together. The helmet covered the whole of the head except the face and included projecting brow-plate and neck-plate. The scutum, a full-length, curving, rectangular shield formed of layers of plywood, could be used defensively to form a shield wall or a tortoise, or it could be used offensively to punch at opponents and throw them off-balance in close-quarters fighting.

    The legionary carried two javelins, a sword, and a dagger. The javelin (pilum) was specially designed as a shield- and armour-piercing weapon, with small pyramid-shaped head, long metal shank (60 cm), and wooden shaft. The sword (gladius) was relatively short (40-50 cm long) and had a sharp, tapered point; it was designed primarily as a stabbing weapon.

    The legionaries were trained to hurl their javelins and then immediately draw swords and charge to contact. A Roman imperial legionary was the finest heavy infantryman of antiquity, and a massed legionary charge was the ancient world’s last word in ‘shock and awe’.
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    The Battle of San Pasqual was a military encounter that occurred during the Mexican-American War in what is now the San Pasqual Valley community of the city of San Diego, California. On December 6 and December 7, 1846, the Californios, and their Presidial Lancers, led by General Don Andres Pico, (1810-1876), defeated Stephen W. Kearny´s US Army column of 150 men.

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