Roman Legion

Devised and directed personally by the dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus rather than by the legion as an institution; contemporary opposition to it is recorded in the dissent below.

The Roman Legion is the standing force that fought under this tactical system.

The onager, a single armed torsion catapult, was a Roman Legion siege weapon from the late Roman period onward

Roman legions under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus crushed Boudica's revolt in Roman Britain around AD 60-61

Roman legions under Vespasian and Titus suppressed the Great Jewish Revolt (First Jewish-Roman War, AD 66-73), destroying the Second Temple

Roman legions, backed by Rome's newly built navy, fought the First Punic War against Carthage from 264 to 241 BC

Roman legions under Metellus and later Marius fought Jugurtha of Numidia in the 112-106 BC Jugurthine War

Roman legions under Sulla, Lucullus and Pompey fought Mithridates VI of Pontus across the three Mithridatic Wars, 89-63 BC

Roman legions fought the Parthian Empire across centuries of intermittent war, including Crassus's disastrous defeat at Carrhae

Roman legions fought the Samnites across the three Samnite Wars between 343 and 290 BC, securing Rome's control of central Italy

Roman legions besieged and destroyed Carthage in the 149-146 BC Third Punic War

Roman legions under Crassus and Pompey suppressed Spartacus's slave revolt in the 73-71 BC Third Servile War