Military History

Military Resources

Dedicated links to the study of the ancient Roman military. The Dalton School[Rome] [Military History]...

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Roman Military Diploma from Slavonski Brod Military

"The regional museum in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, managed to obtain an extremely valuable antique artefact in 1997. It is a Roman military diploma dating from the first century A.D, which had been discovered by chance, while recovering sand from the Sava river bed." [Rome] [Military History]...

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Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars:

with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. [Rome] [Military History]...

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The Civil Wars By Julius Caesar.

Translated by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn. From Internet Classics Archive [Rome] [Military History]...

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Northern Britain in the 5th Century AD

The eclipse of the Roman Empire in the West (c. 395-500) and the German migrations. Invasions in the early 5th century. ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. [Rome] [Military History]...

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Models of the Roman Legion By Gary Brueggeman

"The purpose of the models presented here is to help visualize the legion. The models have been built from data from a variety of experts, many of whom do not agree with each other. The hope is that the models themselves may serve as a tool to clarify questions, identify solutions which are more or less likely, and lead to a further refinement of k...

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The Battle of Teutoburg Forest

from Gaius Velleus Paterculus (c.19 BCE-after 30 CE) Roman History. Translated by John Selby Watson. (New York: 1881), pp. 511-514. [Rome] [Military History]...

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Military History of the Roman State

A listing of works relevant to particular campaigns and battles in Roman History supplied by Hugh Elton Trinity College [Rome] [Military History]...

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Roman Scotland: Outpost of an Empire.

Exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. This exhibition tells the story of the Roman presence in Scotland in the first and second centuries AD, with emphasis on the Antonine Wall frontier and the life lived by the soldiers based in forts along its line. [Rome] [Military History]...

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The Roman Army

Nowhere does the Roman talent for organization show itself so clearly as in its army. The story of the Roman army is an extensive one, demonstrated in part by the scale of this chapter. The first part of this chapter considers the history of the Roman army (concentrating on the legions), trying to explain as much background as possible. The later p...

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