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The Army of the Holy Roman Empire (French: Armée du Saint-Empire; ‹See Tfd› German: Reichsarmee, Reichsheer, or Reichsarmatur; Latin: Exercitus Imperii) was created in 1422 and came to an end when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. The Army of the Empire was not a standing army.
The Army of the Holy Roman Empire (German: Reichsarmee, Reichsheer or Reichsarmatur; Latin: exercitus imperii) was created in 1422 and as a result of the Napoleonic Wars came to an end even before the Empire. It should not be confused with the Imperial Army (Kaiserliche Armee) of the Emperor.
Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire) Imperial Army (Latin: Exercitus Imperatoris, [1] German: Kaiserliche Armee) or Imperial Troops (Kaiserliche Truppen or Kaiserliche) was a name used for several centuries, especially to describe soldiers recruited for the Holy Roman Emperor during the early modern period. The Imperial Army of the Emperor should ...
154.000. 377.728. In the time of Emperor Septimius Severus, the Roman army reached around 500,000 total individuals, with 33 legions (182,000 legionaries [16]) and more than 400 auxiliary units (around 250,000 auxiliaries [17] of which around 75,000 served as cavalry). In the course of the Crisis of the third century, the legions reached 36 ...
t. e. The structural history of the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome 's armed forces, "the most effective and long-lived military institution known to history." [1] At the highest level of structure, the forces were split into the Roman army and the Roman navy, although these ...
At its territorial height, the Roman Empire may have contained between 45 million and 120 million people. [3] Historian Edward Gibbon estimated that the size of the Roman army "most probably formed a standing force of three hundred and seventy-five thousand men" [4] at the empire's territorial peak in the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian (r.
Ancient Rome portal. v. t. e. From its origin as a city-state on the peninsula of Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe, Near East and North Africa to its fall in the 5th century AD, the political history of Ancient Rome was closely entwined with its military history.
The Empire was increasingly plagued by usurpations led or supported by military conspiracies, leading to the Crisis of the Third Century (235–284 AD) in the late empire and eventual final decline. Following is a list of topics on the military history of ancient Rome. Structural history of the Roman military