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Military History of Rome

Roman army

The Roman Army refers to the collection of soldiers and other military forces which served the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. It is a large part of why Rome controlled most of the land around the Mediterranean Sea, including parts of Britain and Asia Minor at the Empire's height. It started as a citizen army, but became the world's first professional one.

Initially, only property owners such as farmers could serve in the army, but starting around the 1st century B.C. anybody could join. For centuries, the size of the army at any one time was between 250,000 and 300,000 soldiers.

Roman navy

See also:

• List of Roman battles
• List of Roman military terms
• Roman military diploma
• Principal passes of the Alps

Roman Civil Wars and Rebellions

• Batavian rebellion (70 AD)
• Nika riots (ca. 532 AD)
• Roman Republican civil wars - several
• Social War (91/88 BC)
• Spartacus slave rebellion (79 BC)
• Year of the four emperors (69 AD)

List of Roman Wars

• Gallic Wars
• Lusitanian War (155 BC - ca. 139 BC)
• Jugurthine War
• Macedonian wars
  • First Macedonian War
  • Second Macedonian War
  • Third Macedonian War
  • Fourth Macedonian War
• Mithridatic wars
  • First Mithridatic War
  • Second Mithridatic War
  • Third Mithridatic War
• Punic wars – against Carthage
  • First Punic War
  • Second Punic War
  • Third Punic War
• Roman invasion of Britain
• Samnite wars 327 - 290 BC

Roman generals

• Gnaeus Julius Agricola - conquered Scotland
• Julius Caesar
• Quintus Petillius Cerialis - defeated Boudicca and ended the Batavian rebellion
• Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo - in Asia
• Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus - acquired Macedonia
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla - in the Mithridatic and Samnite Wars
• Gaius Marius - against the Germanic tribes
• Pompey the Great - several campaigns
• Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus - Second Punic War
• Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the Cunctator - First Punic War
• Quintus Sertorius
• Scipio Aemilianus - Third Punic War
• Suetonius Paullinus - in Roman Britain

Famous enemies of Rome

This is a list of foreign persons that led important wars or rebellions against Rome

• Alaric
• Arminius
• Attila the Hun
• Boudicca
• Julius Civilis
• Confederations of Germanic Tribes
• Hannibal of the Second Punic War
• Mithridates VI of Pontus
• Shapur I of Persia
• Simon bar Kokhba
• Vercingetorix
• Viriathus of the Lusitanian War
• Zenobia

Roman Army

• Legionary
• lorica segmentata
• Praetorian Guard
• Roman legion
  • List of Roman legions
• Roman triumph
• siege engine
• trireme
• Weapons
  • Corvus
  • Gladius
  • Onager
  • Pilum
  • Spatha

History - Ancient History - Ancient Rome - Military History of Rome

See also: Military History

• Roman military history
• Militaries