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Roman Legionary Infantrymen

Armies Roman Warriors 10 Min Read

URSARIENSES LEGIO Comitatenses, GALLIA, 451 A. D. The Ursarienses were a Statutory Comitatenses (ie belonging to the mobile army, the comitatus) of the late empire, this man is from Legio III Italica according to Notitia dignitatum, under the command of the Magister equitum infra Gallias. The legionaries were protected by cuirabolli curiass, wore tunics decorated with orbicoli and clavi, and…

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Armies Personnel Warriors 9 Min Read

Tlaxcala

Tlaxcallan soldiers Source: “Armies of the Sixteenth Century – The armies of the Aztec and Inca Empires, other native peoples of the Americas, and the Conquistadores 1450-1608” by Ian Heath. A powerful kingdom in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, Tlaxcala was a fierce rival of the Aztecs…

Medieval Warriors 25 Min Read

Routiers

The Battle of Nájera from a fifteenth-century manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles. The English and Peter of Castile are on the left. In July 1362, the Black Prince was confirmed as the ruler of Aquitaine, in return for an annual payment to the king of one ounce of gold. Prince Edward,…

Cossack Warriors 6 Min Read

Siberia and the Mongol Empire

The demand for falcons and furs from the “Peoples of the Forest” brought Mongol conquerors north to the Arctic. The peoples of the Mongolian steppe had long maintained intimate relations with the peoples of the Siberian taiga (forest). They called those in the forest “People of the Forest” (Oi-yin Irged),…

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The Frankish Way of War

The kingdoms and peoples of Europe and North Africa just before the East Roman Emperor…

Etruscan Warriors

1. EARLY VILLANOVAN CULTURE, 9th–8th CENTURIES BC.(1) Leader with war-chariot, Tarchuna area. The early example…

Scythians

From eighth to the second century bce, the Scythians represented the most terrifying military power…

Mesoamerican Warfare (1200 B. C. E.-1521 C. E.)

Highest development of Stone Age warfare, with some variations. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica provides an excellent study…