Research Catalog

Title

Roman battle tactics, 390-110 BC / Nic Fields ; illustrated by Gerry & Sam Embleton ; consultant editor Martin Windrow.

Author

Fields, Nic.

Publication

Oxford ; Long Island City, NY : Osprey, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Embleton, G. A. (Gerry A.)
• Embleton, S. (Sam)
• Windrow, Martin.

Description

64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Series Statement

Elite ; 172

Uniform Title

Elite series 172.

Subject

• Military art and science > Rome
• Tactics > History > To 1500
• Rome > History, Military
• Rome > Drill and tactics

Genre/Form

• History
• Military history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Chronology of major conflicts -- Italy before Rome: Etruscans ; Latins ; Oscans ; Greeks ; Celtic incursions ; A village called Rome -- The Age of Kings: Clan warfare ; City-state warfare ; The 'Servian" army -- The Age of Conquests: Italy ; The western Mediterranean ; The Greek world ; The 'Livian' legion ; The 'Polybian' legion, The socii -- The Roman way of war: The war band ; The phalanx ; Phalanx versus war band: The Allia, 390 BC, The Caudine Forks,, 321 BC ; The manipular legion: The triplex acies, The pilum, The gladius and scutum ; Militia versus mercenary: Cannae, 216 BC, Zama, 210 BC -- Legion versus phalanx: Kynoskephalai, 197 BC, Magnesia, 190 BC, Pydna, 168 BC.

ISBN

• 9781846033827 (pbk.)
• 9781849081245 (e-book)
• 1846033829 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010292457

OCLC

429603759

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library