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Would King Harold have fared better if he'd had a legion of 4th-century Roman soldiers on his side at the battle of Hastings?
By the 4th century the legionary unit was being phased out in favour of a system in which the frontiers were protected by third-rate garrison troops. The Roman army at that time included many Germans, who were often closely related to the very barbarians from whom they were supposed to be protecting the empire. I'm not sure that such troops would have been of much better quality than King Harold's own house carls.
But Harold would certainly have benefited from the services of a Roman legion dating from, say, the time of the emperor Trajan, in the early 2nd century. Such a legion would have...
Would King Harold have fared better if he'd had a legion of 4th-century Roman soldiers on his side at the battle of Hastings?
By the 4th century the legionary unit was being phased out in favour of a system in which the frontiers were protected by third-rate garrison troops. The Roman army at that time included many Germans, who were often closely related to the very barbarians from whom they were supposed to be protecting the empire. I'm not sure that such troops would have been of much better quality than King Harold's own house carls.
But Harold would certainly have benefited from the services of a Roman legion dating from, say, the time of the emperor Trajan, in the early 2nd century. Such a legion would have...
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