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An examination of the Roman armies of the late Republic and early Empire which looks at the logistical and operational techniques which made the armies successes possible. First published in 1994.
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Military art and science--Rome, Rome--History, Military, Rome--Army, Rome--Navy.
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1996
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U35.P44 1994eb
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355/.00937
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Military art and science--Rome, Rome--History, Military, Rome--Army, Rome--Navy.
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The Roman War Machine
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The east Roman army, and navy in about AD 400, from a sixteenth-century drawing of the Column of Arcadius
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The Roman War Machine
John Peddie
COMBINED BOOKS Pennsylvania
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Published in the United States of America by Combined Books, Inc., in 1996 by arrangement with Sutton Publishing Limited Phoenix Mill Thrupp Stroud Gloucestershire
Copyright John Peddie, 1994
For information, address: Combined Books Inc. 151 East 10th Avenue, Conshohocken, PA 19428
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
ISBN 0-938289-85-3
Cover illustration: The Antonine Wall in Scotland, a 'distance slab' recording a sector constructed by a named unit, the Second Legion, Augusta. (Trustees of the National Museum of Scotland)
ALAN SUTTON and SUTTON are the trade marks of Sutton Publishing Limited
Typeset in 11/12 Ehrhardt Typesetting and origination by Sutton Publishing Limited Printed in Great Britain by Hartnolls, Bodmin, Cornwall
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Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Introduction
ix
1 Roman Generalship
1
2 Command and Control
19
3 Supply Trains and Baggage
42
4 Marching-camp Techniques
59
5 Supporting Arms and Weaponry
80
6 Waterborne Operations
101
7 Siege Warfare
123
Appendix 1 The Peutinger Map
148
Appendix 2 Signal Methods
149
Appendix 3 Marching-camp Techniques
151
Appendix 4 Siege of Jerusalem, AD 70
152
Notes
153
Bibliography
159
Index
162
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They are quick to act as they are slow to give way, and never was there an engagement in which they were worsted by numbers, tactical skill or unfavourable ground or even by fortune, which is less within their grasp than victory. Josephus ( AD 37-93)
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List of Illustrations
1. Sixteenth-century drawing of the Column of Arcadius
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2. Peutinger Map of Jerusalem
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3. Insignia of the first secretary of the Chancellery
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