Product Description: Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals. Thus the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded the battle of Adrianople, which spelled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire...read more

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Product Description: The pedes, who remained the backbone of the Roman army until well into the 5th century, was different from the legionary who preceded him. Perhaps he was not as well disciplined, but in many ways he was more flexible -- ready for deployment to trouble spots, and for fighting both as a skirmisher and a heavy infantryman...read more

Product Description: The twilight of the Roman Empire saw a revolution in the way war was waged. The drilled infantryman, who had been the mainstay of Mediterranean armies since the days of the Greek hoplite, was gradually replaced by the mounted warrior...read more