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| | Gaius Marius |
 | | He further made the cohort the military unit instead of the maniple, and his cavalry and light-armed troops were drawn from foreign countries, so that it may be said that Marius was the originator of the mercenary army. | | | Marius was not only a great general, but also a great military reformer. | | | From his time a citizen militia was replaced by a professional soldiery, which had hitherto been little liked by the Roman people. |
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| | legion -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | In the military operations of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Julius Caesar, a legion was composed of 10 cohorts, with 4 cohorts in the first line and 3 each in the second and third lines. | | | Includes details on the International Centre for Severan Studies, the history of the II Parthian Legion, scholarly papers on aspects of Severan history and politics, information on histoical monuments, reliogion, and military campaigns." | | | It was founded in Paris on March 15–17, 1919, by delegates from combat and service units of the American Expeditionary Force. |
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| | Maniple (military unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was also the name of the military insignia carried by such unit. | | | Maniple (Latin: manipulus) was a tactical unit of the Roman Legion, consisting of two centuriae within a single cohort. | | | Primary sources for early Roman military organization include the writings of Polybius and Livy. |
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| | Gaius Marius Biography (part IV) |
| | In so far as the standard was a sacred object symbolizing the corporate existence of a military unit, it qualified for the care and protection of the soldiers whom it represented and could not properly be exposed to danger of capture by the enemy in battle. | | | Incidentally, the Greeks of the fifth century BCE had made no corresponding use of military standards in their compact phalanx battles. | | | Arpinum was not far from the territory of the Peligni, and Marius was perhaps acutely conscious of the importance of military standards and banners in terms of local sentiment. |
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| | Glossary |
| | Cohors urbana (LA): urban cohort; military police unit. | | | Numerus statorum praetorianorum (LA): unit of praetorian military police. | | | Militia secunda (LA): second term of equestrian military service; generally this involved a post as tribunus either in a legion or an auxiliary unit, though for a limited period this involved command of an ala (LA), an auxiliary cavalry regiment. |
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| | List of Roman military terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cohors (LA; English Cohort): military unit, especially the constitutive batallions of a legion. | | | Cohors vigilum (LA): cohort of the watchmen; unit of the police force annex fire brigade. | | | Cohors milliaria (LA): 'thousand strong unit'; military unit with an establishment strength of a 1000 soldiers. |
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| | A Cohort (military unit) of a Roman legion. | | | A Cohort study is a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and Social science. | | | In biology, cohort is a term for a group of allied orders or families of plants or animals. |
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| | Cohors urbana (LA): urban cohort; military police unit. | | | Cohors vigilum (LA): cohort of the watchmen; unit of the police force annex fire brigade. | | | Decimipilus (LA): centurion of the pili of the tenth cohort of a legion. |
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| | Cohort (military unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cohortes urbanae, "urban cohort": military police unit patrolling in the capital. | | | Cohortes vigilum, "watchmen"; unit of the police force annex fire brigade in the capital. | | | In the Imperial Roman auxiliary forces, there were individual cohorts with an establishment strength of 500 (cohors quingenaria) or of 1000 (cohors milliaria), as well as mixed infantry and cavalry units (cohors equitata) that existed in parallel. |
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| | A Cohort (military unit) of a Roman legion. | | | A Cohort study is a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and Social science. | | | In biology, cohort is a term for a group of allied orders or families of plants or animals. |
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| | Legion XXIV MA - Home Page |
| | The Legionaries or "Miles"(solders) were paid wages, given a pension and upon completion of 20 years of military service, were provided with a piece of land for their retirement. | | | After 50 AD or so, Legions contained as many as 5500 soldiers; when the first cohort of these later legions was expanded to about 800 men, in five expanded centuries and up to 150 auxiliary archers, horsemen, scouts and dispatch riders could be attached to the Legion. | | | It is intended as a re-enactment unit to display Roman Army Life, Dress, Battle Tactics, History and Atmosphere at Faires, Schools or other Public Functions. |
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| | Praetorian Guard |
| | (The cohors praetoria was named for the praetorium, the central area of the military camp where the commander's tent had been pitched; thus, the praetorium was the camp headquarters, and its guardians, the praetorian cohort.) | | | At the official inception of the Praetorian Guard by Octavian (Augustus) following his consolidation of power after Actium in 31 BCE, each cohors praetoria was an autonomous unit under the command of a military tribune -- a high-ranking member of the ordo equester, the mercantile class of the Roman oligarchy. | | | The first credible example of bodyguard-type cohorts dates to 133 BCE, when Scipio Aemilianus organized 500 of his clients into a so-called "troop of friends." The practice of keeping a bodyguard unit, later termed a cohors praetoria, became standard as the Republic devolved into civil war. |
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| | Legion XXIV - Imperial Standards |
| | One to six phalerae were displayed on a signum and the number of disks is thought to represent the number of the Century unit within the Cohort, as six century's composed a cohort and not more than six phalerae have been found in representations of signums from Roman times. | | | Consul Marius established the Eagle or Aquila as the sole symbol of a Roman Legion as part of his "Reforms" of the Roman Military in 106 BC. | | | A legion which lost its Aquila or had it fall in battle was disgraced. |
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| | Rise of Domestic Terrorism and Its Relation to United States Armed Forces |
| | A survey of approximately 175 mid-grade military officers, predominantly United States Marine Corps Majors, was conducted to determine the perceptions and attitudes common among such a cohort regarding the threats posed to "civilian and military authority" by contemporary extremist and terrorist groups. | | | It should be clearly stated and understood that not every militia unit has racist or violent tendencies, and that many of them have been formed by individuals who truly believe the units to be a legitimate means of expressing their anger and frustration with a too distant and hostile government. | | | A growing concern among state and federal law enforcement officials, as well as among the general citizenry, is the revelation of the extent to which armed, right-wing, citizen militias occur in the United States and the recent upsurge in their numbers. |
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| | Roman Army Part I |
| | Standards also helped to preserve the cohesiveness and pride of each unit, as they represented a concrete symbol of that unit's achievements. | | | Each century, cohort, and legion had its own standard; during battle and other activities, these were held by officers called standardbearers (general term signifer) who were marked out from other soldiers by the animal-head skins they wore on their heads, which can be clearly seen on this relief from Trajan's column. | | | Each military campaign was assigned one general ( dux), though there was not a single commander-in-chief until imperial times because a number of campaigns could be conducted simultaneously in different geographic areas. |
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| | Legion XXIV - Imperial Standards |
| | Each Century and Cohort unit would have a "Signifer" to carry its Signum and a "Vexillarius" to bear the unit's Vexillum banner. | | | Consul Marius established the Eagle or Aquila as the sole symbol of a Roman Legion as part of his "Reforms" of the Roman Military in 106 BC. | | | The Legion's Aquila would be defended to the death. |
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| | The first unit to be stationed at the Bar Hill fort were evidently the First Cohort of Baetasians, an auxiliary infantry regiment recruited from the Baetasii tribe of Lower Germany who inhabited the lands between the Rhine and the Meuse. | | | Having said all this, the fortlet lying beneath the Antonine fort at Bar Hill and another at Croy Hill, are now both thought not to be Agricolan, possibly not even constructed by the Roman military, perhaps even by the native inhabitants prior to the coming of Rome. | | | In addition to the nine inscribed stones found in or rear the Bar Hill fort, a Roman milestone or honorific pillar was found along the Wall near Bar Hill, one of only two recorded in the RIB for Scotland, the other being at Cramond on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh ( vide RIB 2313). |
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| | Curle: Chapter 15, Seals and Weights |
| | Professor Haverfield suggests that as on many of these lead discs a military unit is indicated, the letters C·II·T may signify Cohors II Tungrorum, the Second Cohort of Tungri, whose presence in North Britain is attested by an inscription at Birrens.[ 2 ] | | | On the opposite side are letters, which look like \ACM, between two branches. | | | Of the remaining objects on Plate LXXXI., Fig. |
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| | The Origin of the Cult of St. Christopher |
| | This mentions a Cohors Tertia Valeria Marmaritarum ("The Third Valerian Cohort of the Marmaritae") which served under the military commander of the late Roman provinces of both Syria and Syria Euphratensis. | | | The fact that Christopher was martyred in Syria and that the Cohors Tertia Valeria Marmaritarum served in Syria confirms that this was the unit into which Christopher is alleged to have been conscripted. | | | It is not unreasonable to suggest, therefore, that he may have persuaded members of the Cohors Tertia Valeria Marmaritarum to afford him temporary shelter on account of the kindness which he had earlier shown their people, and that several conversions resulted from this renewed contact, including that of the man we know now as Christopher. |
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| | The military unit could be a part-mounted cohort possibly 1056 strong (cohors milliaria? | | | The fortress can be dated quite exactly in the 170thies and can be related with the Chauci invasions in Gallia Belgica wich took place - according to the Vita Didii Iuliani, I, 6-9 - in 172-174 A.D., under the governership of Didius Iulianus, the future emperor (193 A.D.). | | | The close relation between archaeological and literary evidence, and the short occupation of the Maldegem fort, makes it a basic reference for the Provincial-Roman archaeology. |
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| | ISHR group Nigeria - Activities Report 2001 |
| | The crisis is fuelled by the undemocratic elements and their cohort, who try to maintain a kind of crisis atmosphere in the southwestern part of Nigeria which is the political and democratic bedrock of the Nation, so as to seize the circumstances to justify their claim of an insecure environment for transition to civil rule. | | | This was brought to reality with the assistance of the state UNDP programme monitoring unit and state UNFPA Department. | | | This is evident in the sharp reactions that followed the call of Senator Joseph Waku (a ruling party senator PDP) on the military to return to politics. |
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| | The military unit could be a part-mounted cohort possibly 1056 strong (cohors milliaria? | | | Vermeulen, Sandy Flanders in the Roman Period: Towards a Regional Research Strategy, in: M. Lodewijckx (ed.), Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West- European Societies, Album Amicorum André Van Doorselaer, Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia Monographiae 8, Leuven, 1996, pp. | | | The fortress can be dated quite exactly in the 170thies and can be related with the Chauci invasions in Gallia Belgica wich took place - according to the Vita Didii Iuliani, I, 6-9 - in 172-174 A.D., under the governership of Didius Iulianus, the future emperor (193 A.D.). |
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| | 10th Mountain Division, Ready of Not? Sept. 26, 2000 |
| | The 10th is also attempting to develop for use on a "by case" basis its own Opposition ("Red") Force, complete with a cohort of "innocent civilians," to use for its own training and for visiting units. | | | While the borrowed military personnel were performing tasks that contributed to the quality of life for personnel in the Division, they were also not receiving training for their combat missions, and they were not integrating with the units they would face the stress of combat with. | | | Appendix C shows the number of personnel required for the two brigade division, the number the division's units are authorized to have, and the number actually assigned to each unit. |
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| | 10th Mountain Division, Ready of Not? Sept. 26, 2000 |
| | The 10th is also attempting to develop for use on a "by case" basis its own Opposition ("Red") Force, complete with a cohort of "innocent civilians," to use for its own training and for visiting units. | | | While the borrowed military personnel were performing tasks that contributed to the quality of life for personnel in the Division, they were also not receiving training for their combat missions, and they were not integrating with the units they would face the stress of combat with. | | | The 10th Mountain Division is officially rated by the Army at a level that lends support to General Shelton and the other respondents to candidate Bush's assertion of non-readiness. |
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