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How to use maniples in a sentence

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