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Bob;

Your latest edit has to be the one in Peer Review. That is the only one eligible to be picked. If you want to leave an earlier version on site for comparison that is fine, but your latest revision needs to be here.

Thanks

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OK will do FS

All done as requested FS

Just checking some of the numbers in this.

Question 1

You say a century, at the time you are describing it, has 80 men.

A cohort consists of 6 centuries, which makes it 480 men.

You say cohort I is bigger, it is 800 to 960 men. Does this mean it has 10 to 12 centuries in it, with 10 to 12 centurions, or were its centuries bigger.

Question 2

A legion consists of Cohort I with 800 to 960 men and nine other cohorts, each with 480 men.

That makes between 5120 and 5280 men.

But elsewhere you say a legion has 6000 men.

So who are the other nearly a thousand men who make up the legion?

Thanks for the comment the answer to Question 2, is relatively simple

A legion consists of Cohort I with 800 to 960 men and nine other cohorts, each with 480 men.

That makes between 5120 and 5280 men.

But elsewhere you say a legion has 6000 men.

So who are the other nearly a thousand men who make up the legion?

The other "missing" are the non combatant portion of a legion, Transport, Medical and Clerks, clearly a clarification is needed here.

I shall sort out question 2 later

Question 1

You say a century, at the time you are describing it, has 80 men.

A cohort consists of 6 centuries, which makes it 480 men.

You say cohort I is bigger, it is 800 to 960 men. Does this mean it has 10 to 12 centuries in it, with 10 to 12 centurions, or were its centuries bigger.

The centuries were double size the, only discipline and training of this quality of troops made it possible.

The proportion of unskilled men in the other centuries would have made this impracticable

So Cohort I consists of 6 centuries of 160 men each.

Correct
allowing for casualties and sick. Men were transferred between centuries/cohorts to keep the fighting balance correct the front line centuries were always up strength

Page Turner:
Entry: A Roman Legion - A87864871
Author: bobstafford - U3151547

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Well done bob. Thanks for taking all the advice offered.

No-one knows everything Gnomon, and the quality guide reflects on us all. So I will always welcome good advice, keep it coming.

It would be nice if we could get some readership feedback sometimes

well done Bob

GB

Thanks GB I was concerned that 6000 + word entries would be split.
I was pleasantly surprised how much I remembered.

Thanks to everybody who commented as well

I am glad to see this has been selected.
Good work bob

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Thanks to everyone