Ancient armies of Italy

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Roman soldiers for Canadian kids



http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/veni-vi...nd-to-remember

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i wonder if they will win in a fight against the aztecs or other native americans

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Insubres (from modern-day Lombardy) and Gauls Boii (settled in modern-day Emilia)

In terms of dress, Polybius gives us a vivid description of Gaulish invaders at the battle of Telamon (modern-day Tuscany), fought in 225 B.C.E. He states that the tribes of the Insubres and Boii wore trousers (bracae), and light cloaks.




The battle of Telamon

The Battle of Telamon was fought between the Roman Republic and an alliance of Gauls in 225 BC. The Romans, led by the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus, defeated the Gauls, thus extending their influence over northern Italy.

Rome had been at peace with the tribes of Cisalpine Gaul (the Po valley in northern Italy) for many years. Indeed, when a force of Transalpine Gauls had crossed the Alps into Italy in 230 BC, it had been the Boii of Cisalpine Gaul who had repelled them. The Romans had sent an army but found it was not needed. However, when the Romans partitioned the formerly Gallic territory of Picenum in 234 BC, this created resentment among its neighbours, the Boii and Insubres.

In 225 BC, the Boii and Insubres paid large sums of money to the Gaesatae, mercenaries from Transalpine Gaul led by Aneroëstes and Concolitanus, to fight with them against Rome. The Romans, alarmed by this Celtic mobilisation, made a treaty giving the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal the Fair unimpeded control of Hispania so they could concentrate on the threat closer to home.

The Romans called upon their allies in Italy to supply troops. The consul Lucius Aemilius Papus had four legions of Roman citizens, 22,000 men in total, plus 32,000 allied troops, which he stationed the majority of his forces at Ariminum. He placed 54,000 Sabines and Etruscans on the Etruscan border under the command of a praetor, and sent 40,000 Umbrians, Sarsinates, Veneti and Cenomani to attack the home territory of the Boii to distract them from the battle. The other consul, Gaius Atilius Regulus, had an army the same size as that of Papus, but was stationed in Sardinia at the time, and there was a reserve of 21,500 citizens and 32,000 allies in Rome itself, and two reserve legions in Sicily and Tarentum.

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Magna Graecia





The Greek colonies all over Europe

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i wonder if they will win in a fight against the aztecs or other native americans

I think that in a battle between a roman legion vs an aztec army, the aztec army would be massacred

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A little fictionized,but still cool.

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Late Republican Roman Armies