03-26-2007, 10:07 PM
Quote:Jim wrote:
Quote:There are those who don't buy the "ornate = parade only" theory, including me.
It is interesting to see the stable uniforms and battledress of French Napoleonic cavalry. The battle gear looks like what we would today call parade wear. However on occasion they also covered it up to protect it and we find similar references in Roman accounts.
Caesar also gave his soldiers gold and silver decorated equipment so they would be less likely to throw it away!
Graham.
That was the quote about Caesar I was trying to remember before! :roll:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
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Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
