12-16-2020, 07:32 AM
Colonel Chabert wrote :-
> There are a number of legions created by Julius Caesar and revived shortly afterwards by Octavian that are still attested in the Notitia almost 450 years later. Even within the timeframe of the 4th century the senior western units fought innumerable actions against the Germans, went to Persia and back and suffered defeat in one civil war after another and yet at the end of the century they are still there (at least on paper!).
Surely you could say the same thing about the English army in the last millennium.
> There are a number of legions created by Julius Caesar and revived shortly afterwards by Octavian that are still attested in the Notitia almost 450 years later. Even within the timeframe of the 4th century the senior western units fought innumerable actions against the Germans, went to Persia and back and suffered defeat in one civil war after another and yet at the end of the century they are still there (at least on paper!).
Surely you could say the same thing about the English army in the last millennium.
