25% of all Romans under arms?

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Well some of it has reappeared after a rebot, but not all. I've managed to salvage my dissertation from a network drive I had backing up elsewhere on my PC. That plus a few back ups on floppiesmean I have about 60% back. The rest including the relevant essay here seems to be gone. I have the original version of the Julian work, but that as Sander and Jenny know was too rough and in the wrong format, all that I did to it aftertheir advice is lost. I have all the first year work, and progressively less after that. pretty much all this years coursework seems to be lost, apart form one or two printouts, which have suddenly become much more valuable and promoted from coffee mat duty.<br>
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Sorry Rich i've hijacked your thread. To try to get back on topic. This info is lifted from my head and Peter Conolly's Greece and Rome at war so treat it with caution, the book is trustworhy, I'm not Polybius gives i think a manpower figure of 700, 000. Now in the Punic wars (all three) Rome probably suffered around a quater of a million casualties. This includes maybe 100, 000 when the fleet was lost in the 1st Punic war and say 80, 000 in the disasterrous battles upto and including Cannae. Now after Cannae Rome mobilised pretty much everybody she could. 30 legions 150000 men. THat was scrapping the barrel htough, slave legions, everyone available over the age of 17 mobilised. It coulds be done, but only in emergency. <p></p><i></i>