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"Non-combatants" in late Republic legions
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Paullus Scipio:3badgvuu Wrote:Useful knowledge about the way mules work.....and a little-known part of the story of the West. The anecdote alone is worthy of a laudes!
What are the sources that make the 'mule train' in Roman times so definitive?
Probably no source, just.... Mules are mules, 2000 years have not changed the nature of them. Instinct is instinct. Man on the other hand forgets.......
Matt Harley from sunny Kidderminster in the UK.

"Me sequimini ad agrum puellae."
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steering mules - by Caius Fabius - 10-12-2007, 04:39 PM
Non-combatants - by Paullus Scipio - 10-12-2007, 07:41 PM
Re: Non-combatants - by Tarbicus - 10-12-2007, 11:33 PM
Re: Non-combatants - by Matus turpis ferinus - 10-13-2007, 12:11 AM
Non-Combatants - by Paullus Scipio - 10-13-2007, 12:17 AM
Mules - by Paullus Scipio - 10-13-2007, 12:59 AM

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