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According and Polybius
According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.
According to Polybius, this army was partly composed of Ligurians, Celts and Iberians.
According to Polybius he arrived in Italy accompanied by 20, 000 foot soldiers and 4, 000 horsemen, and only a few elephants.
According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).
According to Pausanias and the Greek historian Polybius, an inscribed pillar ( stele ) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt.
According to Polybius, Roman institutions were the backbone of the empire but Roman law is the medulla.
According to Polybius there had been several trade agreements between Rome and Carthage, even a mutual alliance against king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
According to Polybius:
According to Polybius and Livy, 5, 000 Macedonians had been killed.
According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government.
According to Polybius, this was the first time poison gas was used.
According to Polybius, Mummius ' was unable to resist the pressure of those around him.
According to Polybius, Sempronius felt free to act on his own: " He was, it is true, at liberty to act as he thought best owing to the illness of Scipio.
According to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, an important factor in Philip's decision to take advantage of this opportunity was the influence of Demetrius of Pharos.
According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people ( and thus the assemblies ) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of new statutes, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation ( or dissolution ) of alliances.
According to Polybius, he asserted that " religion was a deliberate imposture devised by some cunning man for political ends.
According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.
According to Polybius, the Romans seized a shipwrecked Carthaginian quinquereme and used it as a blueprint for their own ships, but it is stated that the Roman copies were heavier than the Carthaginian vessels, which were better built.
According to Polybius, at the Battle of Ecnomus the Roman quinqueremes carried a total crew of 420, 300 of whom were rowers, and the rest marines.
According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises ( Hypomnemata ) on the subject.
According to Polybius, Ptolemy had 70, 000 infantry, 5, 000 cavalry, and 73 war elephants and Antiochus 62, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 102 elephants.
According to Polybius, the African elephants could not bear the smell, sound and view of their Indian counterparts as well as their greater size and strength and would easily give way and rout.
According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10, 000 foot dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4, 000 men were taken prisoner.
According to some Roman historians, including Polybius ( Book 10 ), Laelius was a friend of Scipio from childhood ; however, his family background is obscure.

According and Hannibal's
According to Plutarch, Paullus replied to Fabius that he feared the votes in Rome more than Hannibal's army.
" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.
According to Livy, he carried on the operations with such vigor that Hannibal's absence was hardly felt.

According and cavalry
According to the plans, the Third Army, under general Radko Dimitriev, was deployed east of and behind the First, and was covered by the cavalry division hiding it from the Turkish view.
According to the historian Philinus, this army was composed of 50, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 60 elephants.
According to the contemporary sources and later speculations, the first line was formed by light cavalry archers ( Battle of Oslava-1116, 1146, 1260, 1278 ).
According to Vegetius, infantry was the most important element of an army because it was cheap compared to cavalry and could be deployed on any terrain.
According to the Arabian sources, the Franks drew up in a large square, with hills and trees to their front to break up the Muslim's cavalry charges.
According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.
According to papers in the SOHS Archives, Bretnor ’ s military background included service in the last cavalry unit in the U. S. Army.
According to Plutarch, Perseus ' cavalry had yet to engage, and both the king and his cavalry were accused of cowardice by the surviving infantry.
According to some family stories, some Union cavalry scouts or bummers entered the county.
According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana, " Such a strong force of Confederate cavalry occupied the Mississippi side opposite St. Joseph that all Federal attempts to close the transit in January ended in failure.
According to a ' State of the Allied Troops ', sent home by Cumberland, the Allied army's effective strength was less than 43, 000 consisting of 30, 550 infantry and 12, 000 cavalry.
According to Chambers ' description of the battle, the Silesian cavalry initiated combat with the vanguard ( mangudai ) of the Mongol army.
According to David Nicolle, the number of Janissaries in the 14th century was 1, 000, and estimated to be 6, 000 in 1475, whereas the same source estimates 40, 000 as the number of Timarli Sipahi, the provincial cavalry which constituted the main force of the army.
According to Plutarch, at the time of the Battle of the Hydaspes River, the Nanda Empire's army numbered 200, 000 infantry, 80, 000 cavalry, 8, 000 chariots, and 7, 000 war elephants, which discouraged Alexander's men and prevented their further progress into India:
According to the claims of some European sources, aside from the knights there was a greater number of lighter cavalry, and perhaps 10, 000 foot soldiers, supplemented by crossbowmen from the Italian merchant fleet, and a large number of mercenaries ( including Turcopoles ) hired with money donated to the kingdom by Henry II of England.
According to Livy, in the extreme right he posted the Trallian and Cretan horsemen, each body numbering 500 troopers, but most probably, these are the light troops and archers named by Appian to be intermingled among the cavalry.
According to local legend Cromwell ’ s cavalry was billeted in the village.
According to the plans, the Third Army ( 94, 884 men ), under general Radko Dimitriev, was deployed east of and behind the First, and was covered by the cavalry division hiding it from the Turkish view.
According to Tacitus, allied auxiliary infantry, 8, 000 in number, were in the centre, while 3, 000 cavalry were on the flanks, with the Roman legionaries in front of their camp as a reserve.
According to Livy, Servius Tullius also established a further 12 centuriae of cavalry.
According to the Fraccaro interpretation, when the Roman monarchy was replaced by two annually elected praetores ( later called Consuls ), the royal army was divided equally among them for campaigning purposes, which if true explains why a later Polybian legion's cavalry contingent was 300-strong.
According to Megasthenes, the empire wielded a military of 600, 000 infantry, 30, 000 cavalry, and 9, 000 war elephants.

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