- altogether,
adopting the more
flexible mani****r system,
famously referred to as "a
phalanx with joints". The
mani****r system was
faded from
ancient sources...
-
Roman citizens serving as legionaries.
During the
Roman Republic the
mani****r legion comprised 4,200
infantry and 300 cavalry.
After the
Marian reforms...
- The
Roman army of the mid-Republic, also
called the
mani****r Roman army or the
Polybian army,
refers to the
armed forces deplo**** by the mid-Roman Republic...
- peninsula. In the 4th century, the
Romans replaced it with the more
flexible mani****r formation. This
change is
sometimes attributed to
Marcus Furius Camillus...
- slow
evolution rather than
singular and
deliberate policy of reform. The
mani****r formation was
probably copied from Rome's
Samnite enemies to the south...
- The
battle is also
considered to be a
victory of the
Roman legion's
mani****r system's
flexibility over the
Macedonian phalanx's rigidity. The Third...
- [unreliable source?] The
precedence during the
times of the
Republican mani****r legion had each
centurio command a
centuria of
sixty men
within a manipulus...
- into the
early Republic around 300 BC, when the so-called "Polybian" or
mani****r legion was introduced.
Until c. 550 BC,
there was
probably no "national"...
- and 5,000 men. The
early Republican legion consisted of five sections:
mani****r heavy infantry (hastati,
principes and triarii), a
force of
light infantry...
- ("the
third liners") were one of the
elements of the
early Roman military mani****r legions of the
early Roman Republic (509 BC – 107 BC). They were the oldest...
