By 99 B.C., the army was reformed into cohorts, three maniples to a cohort. |
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But it was here that Scipio's preparation in lining up his troops in separate maniples bore fruit. |
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The Hastati were organized into centuries of 60 men, which were arranged into maniples of 120, of which there were 10 in a battle formation. |
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A battle-ravaged legion could have only two maniples, a hastily reorganised one could have ten. |
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Daniel showed us his newly purchased tunicle which also came with a stole and a couple of maniples. |
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The maniples were arranged in 3 waves of 10 maniples each in a checker-board fashion. |
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A Roman tribune gathered twenty maniples from the rear lines of the Roman right wing and led them in an attack on the flank of the Macedonian right. |
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The heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry and cavalry troops, typically 300 horsemen per manipular legion. |
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Their role in accompanying the army was primarily to supply any vacancies that might occur in the maniples. |
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Thirty maniples arranged in three lines with supporting troops constituted a legion, totaling between 4,000 and 5,000 men. |
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The duty year was divided into time slices, typically one or two months, which were apportioned to units, typically maniples or centuries. |
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Prior to this, cohorts had been temporary administrative units or tactical task forces of several maniples, even more transitory than the legions themselves. |
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Maniples were units of 120 men each drawn from a single infantry class. |
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