How far could the legions travel in a day

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06-15-2006, 12:55 AM

Makes perfect sense. And of course that means that Tacitus' (or Iosephus') "standard distance" would have been 20 Roman miles per day, which lines up with all the other ancient and modern evidence we have in this thread as being a good day's walk for a loaded infantryman.

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How far could the legions travel in a day - by stevesarak - 05-10-2006, 06:54 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Marius_Ursus - 05-10-2006, 07:46 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Chuck Russell - 05-10-2006, 07:47 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Nathan Ross - 05-10-2006, 08:04 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Nathan Ross - 05-10-2006, 08:13 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Felix - 05-10-2006, 08:22 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Felix - 05-10-2006, 08:32 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Cornelius Quintus - 05-11-2006, 07:05 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Matthew Amt - 05-11-2006, 08:35 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by stevesarak - 05-11-2006, 09:01 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Felix - 05-11-2006, 10:47 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Tarbicus - 05-12-2006, 07:01 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Carlton Bach - 05-12-2006, 08:01 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Iosephus - 05-14-2006, 10:46 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Chuck Russell - 05-14-2006, 12:30 PM

paceman /slave? - by Caius Fabius - 05-14-2006, 06:11 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Arngrim - 05-29-2006, 06:15 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Mithras - 05-29-2006, 08:48 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Robert Vermaat - 05-30-2006, 07:25 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Arngrim - 05-30-2006, 09:19 AM

Marching - by Caius Fabius - 05-30-2006, 04:22 PM

Re: Marching - by Robert Vermaat - 05-30-2006, 05:24 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Arngrim - 05-30-2006, 05:50 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Felix - 05-30-2006, 07:58 PM

How do we know? - by Caius Fabius - 05-30-2006, 10:27 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Iosephus - 06-08-2006, 05:16 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Arngrim - 06-08-2006, 08:01 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Mithras - 06-08-2006, 08:27 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Tarbicus - 06-08-2006, 08:34 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Arngrim - 06-08-2006, 08:59 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by rkmvca1 - 06-12-2006, 09:28 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Mithras - 06-12-2006, 10:04 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Felix - 06-13-2006, 07:25 PM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by Matthew Amt - 06-14-2006, 11:49 AM

Re: How far could the legions travel in a day - by rkmvca1 - 06-15-2006, 12:55 AM

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