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A87874096 A Short History Roman Legion From The Republic to Imperial Era – Version I'll be Mucking Up
A87864871 A Short History Roman Legion From The Republic to Imperial Era – Your Original

Just letting you know I'll be subbing this one too - as long as you're not fed up of me already.

I've not had a chance to look at it yet, so will try to get stuck in tomorrow.

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Looking forward to your comments

Before I get started, I'll let you know that I'll be seeking to reduce the number of footnotes where possible, putting this in house style will mean removing the ' --o-O-o-- ' I'm afraid and also using both Headers and Subheaders.

Did you see this entry as being part of a project on the Roman Legions, with, say,
The Roman Invasion of Britain
Roman Military Ranks
A Roman Mystery - the Lost 9th Legion

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Yes all as a set together with the Roman navy entries

Any of thease could be linked to each other
A Roman Legion From The Republic to Imperial Era
The Gladiators Of Rome
The Groma
Ranks in the Roman Military
The Fleets Roman Of The Roman Empire
Roman Navy Ranks
The Ships of the Roman Fleet
Fleet Types and Patrol Areas (with maps)
The Roman Invasion of Britain
A Roman Mystery - The Lost 9th Legion
The Naval and Coastal Defences of Roman Britain (The Classis Britannica)
The Provinces Of Roman Britain
Roman Military Buildings

I assume that entries on:
Roman Military Buildings
Fleet Types and Patrol Areas (with maps)
are forthcoming?

I did wonder whether you wanted to write about 'Marius' mules' at all – at least a sentence explaining the nickname?

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Hello things are moveing

Fleet Types and Patrol Areas is entry A74481807 (Edited)
Roman Military Buildings (TO COME LATER)

Will this fit ?
The reforms introdued by Gaius Marius the statesman and general in
107 BC. Increased the ammount of equipment the equipment the men of the legion had to carry. Due ot this burden the men of the legions aquired the nikname "muli mariani" or "Marius Mules".

That looks great to me – I'll add it in.
I was confused as I assumed all entries on Rome would have been in the 'Romans' category and that hasn't been classed. Hang on – I'll add it to the Rome category now…

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Would you like to include a definition of 'milites'?

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Good idea

Hows this

Milites were the men of the legions the ordinary soldiers, they formed the bulk of the fighting forces. These men had no specialist training and so extra duties were confined labouring or guard duties.

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7609 words you did well to get through that

One thing though, on reading through



--o-O-o-- page breaks and "veni vidi vici" would perhaps look better if centered.

In the new format turmae is isolated from the rest of the paragraph as shown below

"The second unit was the Ala commanded by a Praefectus Alae. Each Ala had 480 mounted troops, divided into 16 units or

turmae"

needa a tweek.

Well done very good edit good job

I've not finished yet

Don't worry, I'll let you know when I'm done.

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No worries previous results proove that

Just to assure you I'm still working my way through this, although it is now getting to the busiest time of year so I confess that progress has slowed somewhat. You can keep track of my progress now as I've added a little thing to show you how far I've got to.

So far I've only made a few cosmetic changes, and consolidated the information about the cohorts (particularly Cohort I) into one section when it was previously repeated.

One quick question for now:
By ' A time-served senior Centurion a Primus Pilus and finished his 25 years of service.' Do you mean 'A time-served senior Primus Pilus Centurion who had already completed 25 years of service'?

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