Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

To aid the advance, a large legionary fortress was constructed at Inchtuthil.

Also, some warfare was still conducted by Roman forces outside the legionary structure, the most famous example being the campaign in 479 BC by the clan army of gens Fabia against the Etruscan city of Veii ( in which the clan was annihilated ).

All legionary soldiers would also receive a sizeable sum of money on the completion of their term of service: 3000 denarii from the time of Augustus and / or a plot of good farmland ( good land was in much demand ); farmland given to veterans often helped in establishing control of the frontier regions and over rebellious provinces.

The third legionary standard was recovered in 41 CE by Publius Gabinius from the Chauci during the reign of Claudius, brother to Germanicus, according to Cassius Dio in Roman History

Under the new organization of the empire by Diocletian, Numidia was divided in two provinces: the north became Numidia Cirtensis, with capital at Cirta, while the south, which included the Aurès Mountains and was threatened by raids, became Numidia Militiana, " Military Numidia ", with capital at the legionary base of Lambaesis.

The battle was won by the Saxons, who afterwards occupied the three cities of Cirencester ( Corinium ), probably a provincial capital in the Roman period, Gloucester ( Glevum ), a former legionary fortress and a colonia, and Bath ( Aquae Sulis ), a renowned pagan religious centre and spa-city.

The find was equivalent to four years pay for a Roman legionary and was probably buried in hopes of a good harvest or good weather.

Opinion among archaeologists once held that the main function of the shank was to disable both shields and the pilum itself by bending, but it is now thought that the pilum was a form of " personal artillery " designed simply to provide a massive counter-shock against any charging foe, and, as necessary, turn any legionary into a spearman.

The area around York was significantly influenced by the Romans who established their legionary fortress of Eboracum there.

Caerleon is a site of considerable archaeological importance as the location of a Roman legionary fortress or castra ( it was the headquarters for Legio II Augusta from about 75 to 300 AD ) and an Iron Age hill fort.

The parish church of St Cadoc was founded on the site of the legionary headquarters building probably sometime in the 6th century.

His threats only increased the Silures ' determination to resist and a large legionary force occupied in building Roman forts in their territory was surrounded and attacked, and rescued only with difficulty and considerable loss.

To aid the Roman administration in keeping down local opposition, a legionary fortress ( Isca, later Caerleon ) was planted in the midst of tribal territory.

A Roman legionary fortress or castrum, the first permanent legionary fortress to be built in Britain, was established at Camulodunum in 43.

The Roman legionary fortress of Burrium was founded on the site of Usk by the military commander Aulus Didius Gallus, around AD 55.

It was the earliest legionary fortress in Wales.

The Roman legionary was a professional soldier of the Roman army after the Marian reforms.

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The earliest roads, built in the first phase of Roman occupation ( the Julio-Claudian period 43 – 68 ), connected London with the ports used in the invasion ( Chichester and Richborough ), and with the earlier legionary bases at Colchester, Lincoln ( Lindum ), Wroxeter ( Viroconium ), Gloucester and Exeter.

Unlike other legionary fortresses in Britain, Inchtuthil was not later built over and its layout was still largely preserved when Sir Ian Richmond excavated it between 1952 and 1965.

The splendid building of villa built west of the legionary defensive walls, within the area of the canabae, could have been a legate's residence.

The cathedral and neighbouring buildings were built west of the former legionary headquarters.

The layout of the fortress also followed the standard for a legionary fortress with wooden buildings inside a square defensive boundary.

The Goths cross the Roman Empire's border back into Germania, stunning a young legionary whose eagerness to report an invasion becomes a running gag ( He initially reports an ' invasion ' of Goths invading the Goths, then an invasion of Gauls crossing into Germania-which his centurion dismisses as their territory isn't the one being invaded -, and then finally reports the Gauls returning to Gaul, which causes him to get 8 days inside ).

He also invaded Vectis ( the Isle of Wight ), finally setting up a fortress and legionary headquarters at Isca Dumnoniorum ( Exeter ).

Legio VI Ferrata rebuilds the legionary fortress in the city and constructs a Roman temple at Golgotha.

Caerleon is a site of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman legionary fortress, Isca Augusta, and an Iron Age hill fort.

York had been founded as the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum and revived as the Anglo-Saxon trading port of Eoforwic.

Around AD 55, the Romans established a legionary fortress at Isca Dumnoniorum, modern Exeter, but west of Exeter the area remained largely un-Romanized.

The construction of a series of forts beyond the Forth, in particular the legionary fortress of Inchtuthil were perhaps intended to act as a springboard for further advance, and at the very least were intended to control the territory over which Agricola had advanced.

A legionary fortress was established in Palmyra and although no longer an important trade center, it nevertheless remained an important junction of Roman roads in the Syrian desert.

It started life as a legionary fortress in the mid-1st century, possibly garrisoned by the XIV Legion then the XX Legion.

Viroconium was established in about AD 58 as a legionary fortress for the 14th legion during their invasion of what is now Wales.

The term castra then means marching camp, temporary camp, permanent camp, fortified camp and fortress, always designating a great legionary encampment.

Their rising was controlled by a programme of legionary fortress construction, driving Caratacus north into the lands of the Ordovices.

Xanthippus is credited with the Carthaginian formation, cavalry split between the two wings, mercenary infantry on their right, with a hastily raised phalanx of civilians in the centre and a line of elephants in front of the infantry, which defeated the Romans formed in their normal formation, with the outnumbered cavalry on the wings and legionary infantry in the centre.

Like other items of legionary equipment, the dagger underwent some changes during the 1st century AD.

Aside from the rank and file legionary ( who received the base wage of 10 asses a day or 225 denarii a year ), the following list describes the system of officers which developed within the legions from the Marian reforms ( 104 BC ) until the military reforms of Diocletian ( c. 290 ).

* The Roman Recruit looks at the life, duties and equipment of a Roman legionary ( c. 200AD )

After c. 88 BC, knights were no longer drafted into the legionary cavalry, although they remained technically liable to such service throughout the Principate era ( to AD 284 ).

In the later 1st century, the size of a legion's First Cohort was doubled, increasing legionary personnel to c. 5, 500.