What would Claudius's legions have eaten and drunk on campaign and in their barracks? According to Simon Macdowall in Warrior 9: Late Roman Infantryman 236–565 AD, the daily ration of a legionary in Egypt was ...
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Ian MacPherson McCulloch on January 01, 2002
Though the Roman army was the first to practice organised military medicine on a large scale, the need to care for the wounded had existed since tribes and city-states had first taken up arms and made war upon one another.
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Nicholas Sekunda on January 01, 2002
The diet of the ancient greek soldier was rather different than his modern counterpart.
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Martin Marix Evans on September 03, 2001
Tales of buried treasure on what the villagers believed was the site of the Battle of Toothole led to so much unauthorised digging on Cuttle Mill Bank in the 1930s that, according to ...
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on July 01, 2001
Augustus had gradually pushed Rome’s eastern European frontier to the Danube. But a frontier consisting of the Rhine and the Danube made a very long and devious line, including a right angle along their upper courses. An Elbe-Danube line would ...
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Neil Short on May 01, 2001
In his article 'Advancing Backwards' (Osprey Military Journal issue 2.1) Charles Winchester gave a detailed reappraisal of the German Army in the Second World War. He concludes that the Wehrmacht ...
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René Chartrand on March 01, 2001
At the beginning of July 1758, the hopes of Britain and her American colonies were high. Full-scale hostilities had been raging in North America for three years and, while British arms had seen some limited successes, the French had proven ...
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Stephen Turnbull on March 01, 2001
To the popular mind the notion of 'the samurai' never seems to change throughout Japanese history. My book Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467–1649 (Osprey, 2001) shows how wrong this idea is...
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Derrick Wright on March 01, 2001
On 19 February 1945, 72,000 United States Marines of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Divisions launched an amphibious attack on the small island of Iwo Jima some 660 miles south of Tokyo; their objective was to neutralise ...
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on March 01, 2001
On the banks of the River Avon, overlooking the town of Warwick lies Warwick Castle, possibly the finest example of a medieval fortification in England. This has been a place of power and influence from before the Norman Conquest up until the final years of the 19th century...