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  • Thumbnail for Immortals (Achaemenid Empire)
    arrows. They wore scale armour coats. The spear counterbalances of the common soldiery were of silver; to differentiate commanding ranks, the officers' spear...
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    caligae with the common soldiery is evident in the latter's description as caligati ("booted ones"). In the early 1st century AD, the soldiery affectionately...
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    to his enemies. With the death of their last respected leader, the common soldiery in the Imperial army lost any restraint when they easily succeeded...
    23 KB (2,627 words) - 19:44, 16 July 2024
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    districts of the Vatican, which resulted in many deaths among the common soldiery; and the Tiber being close by, the inability of the Gauls and Germans...
    133 KB (12,056 words) - 17:29, 2 August 2024
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    frequent association with medieval warfare, swords were rare among the common soldiery and were instead favoured by men-at-arms or knights as a personal weapon...
    186 KB (21,125 words) - 21:39, 31 July 2024
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    only a short time, and though there were few fatalities among the common soldiery, the chief Lancastrian captains—Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland...
    52 KB (6,344 words) - 17:23, 6 August 2024
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    robes they wore scale armour coats. The spear counterbalances of the common soldiery were of silver; to differentiate commanding ranks, the officers' spear...
    170 KB (17,302 words) - 00:22, 2 August 2024
  • little loss of life, however by the close of the fight, countless Scots common soldiery, five Scots Earls, and the Guardian Douglas lay dead. The following...
    7 KB (765 words) - 22:09, 19 July 2024
  • and greater appreciation from the state, he rhetorically asked the common soldiery why they submitted to the centurions while military life entailed such...
    61 KB (8,737 words) - 18:48, 29 July 2024
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    scholar, which was a position held in much higher regard than the common soldiery during the Song dynasty, Yue chose the military path because there...
    71 KB (9,175 words) - 02:12, 24 July 2024
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    further speculates that the conflict may have driven a wedge between the common soldiery and the voters at Rome, reducing their loyalty to the state. Combined...
    69 KB (9,314 words) - 02:14, 5 August 2024
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    most championed the cause of the lower classes. In a speech to the common soldiery, he decried their lowly conditions: "The savage beasts," said he, "in...
    86 KB (10,874 words) - 22:26, 5 August 2024
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    a short time, and though there were very few fatalities among the common soldiery, the chief Lancastrian captains—Northumberland, Somerset and Thomas...
    63 KB (8,241 words) - 19:31, 1 June 2024
  • characters, from cool-headed and clear-sighted generals, to captains, and common soldiery. Ludovico Ariosto's romance epic, Orlando Furioso (1516), is a continuation...
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    scholar, which was a position held in much higher regard than the common soldiery during the Song, Yue chose the military path because there had never...
    38 KB (4,847 words) - 15:32, 18 August 2023
  • to swim, held it was beneath their dignity to strip in front of the common soldiery, and were conveyed by pelota; "scorning the assistance of another person...
    29 KB (3,762 words) - 23:23, 19 July 2024
  • their infant children. Most of the atrocities are committed not by the common soldiery, whose delinquency was the focus of Gascoigne's account, but rather...
    6 KB (1,014 words) - 01:11, 16 January 2024
  • and equipment. [Hence,] we hear little about the experiences of the common soldiery." The reviews are generally mixed. Richard Harrison, writing for the...
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  • Bargain" which is modeled after the Jezail. Citations "'Ko-i-Staun Foot Soldiery in Summer Costume, Actively employed among the Rocks' | Online Collection...
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  • wrestling and weightlifting, they possessed good physical attributes for soldiery. According to R. W. Falcon, Jat Sikhs (alongside other Sikhs) were seen...
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