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Bikili (s) Decebal's friend (Dio Cassius) [18] Blegissa. Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] Blaesus. Child of a soldier of cohors I Aelia Dacorum [19] Blaikisa. Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] Brasus.
Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) – defeated the Garamantes. Barbatio. Belisarius. Lucilius Bassus. Publius Ventidius Bassus. Bonifacius. Bonosus (usurper) Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus – commanded Caesar's fleet in the war against the Veneti. Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus – led the Roman legions in the conquest of western Iberia.
The Romani people are known by a variety of names, mostly as Gypsies, Roma, Tsinganoi, Bohémiens, and various linguistic variations of these names. There are also numerous subgroups and clans with their own self-designations, such as the Sinti, Kalderash, Boyash, Manouche, Lovari, Lăutari, Machvaya, Romanichal, Romanisael, Kale, Kaale ...
Hannibal (247–183/182 BC) — general who fought the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War. Hannibal Mago (died 406 BC) — shofet (magistrate) of Carthage in 410 BC. Hannibal Gisco (died 258 BC) — military commander in the First Punic War. Hannibal the Rhodian — ship captain during the siege of Lilybaeum in the First Punic War.
The Roman army ( Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, [ 1] and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman army. This period is sometimes split into the Principate (27 BC – 284 AD) and the Dominate (284–476) periods. Under Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14 ), the army consisted of legions ...
The military of ancient Rome was one of largest pre-modern professional standing armies that ever existed. At its height, protecting over 7,000 kilometers of border and consisting of over 400,000 legionaries and auxiliaries, the army was the most important institution in the Roman world. According to the Roman historian Livy, the military was a ...
e. Roman infantry tactics are the theoretical and historical deployment, formation, and manoeuvres of the Roman infantry from the start of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The focus below is primarily on Roman tactics: the "how" of their approach to battle, and how it stacked up against a variety of opponents over time.