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... flank it would move on a wider front than when advancing to its pro- per front . The syntagma is the natural unit of the Greek military organisation . The unit of light infantry was the hécatontarchy , or company , of 128 men ; the ...
... flank it would move on a wider front than when advancing to its pro- per front . The syntagma is the natural unit of the Greek military organisation . The unit of light infantry was the hécatontarchy , or company , of 128 men ; the ...
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... flanks , and sometimes incorpo- rated in the phalanx itself . The formation of the phalangite heavy infantry was by double battalions , or chiliarchys , numbering 1024 men each , drawn up in line with intervals of 10 paces . These ...
... flanks , and sometimes incorpo- rated in the phalanx itself . The formation of the phalangite heavy infantry was by double battalions , or chiliarchys , numbering 1024 men each , drawn up in line with intervals of 10 paces . These ...
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... flank ; when at last , surrounded and overpowered , the veteran battalions sealed their devotion to their general with their blood ! " 6 The general appearance of a Carthaginian army has been described by one of the historians of the ...
... flank ; when at last , surrounded and overpowered , the veteran battalions sealed their devotion to their general with their blood ! " 6 The general appearance of a Carthaginian army has been described by one of the historians of the ...
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... flank and rear , at the same time that the flotilla stranded ; and the sol- diers , at whose head was Hannibal , leaping ashore , attacked the bewildered barbarians in front . These made a feeble resistance , and fled in confusion . The ...
... flank and rear , at the same time that the flotilla stranded ; and the sol- diers , at whose head was Hannibal , leaping ashore , attacked the bewildered barbarians in front . These made a feeble resistance , and fled in confusion . The ...
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... flank and rear , while Hannibal engaged them in front . Sempronius fell into the snare ; he ordered first his ... flanks , in the order which has been described in the introductory remarks . Hannibal drew up his army in two lines ...
... flank and rear , while Hannibal engaged them in front . Sempronius fell into the snare ; he ordered first his ... flanks , in the order which has been described in the introductory remarks . Hannibal drew up his army in two lines ...
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