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The allies would thus supply three-quarters of a consular army's cavalry.

He was already a seasoned commander when he took over his brother's consular army.

This operation seemed reasonable because the other consular army was on its way to Rome and the conditions were favourable.

Note: The legions in a consular army bore either odd or even numbers.

He had intelligence that the consular army was camped at the mouth of the Rhone.

Thus, each consular army fielded was now quadruple the size of the earlier army.

The order of battle of a normal consular army could be summarised thus:

Two were elected each year to head the government of the state, and would be assigned a consular army and an area in which to campaign.

The extraordinarii for a standard consular army as described by Polybius would thus number 600 cavalry and 1680 infantry.

The other Roman consular army was rushed to the Po Valley.

The Roman consular army brought together both Roman and socii units.

Invading Thessaly, Perseus wrong-footed the consular army sent against him.

In 327 BC the two consular armies headed for Campania.

Initially, the consular armies were successful.

A typical consular army was about 20,000 men strong and consisted of two citizen and two allied legions.

In the case above, the other consular army would contain legions II and IV.

Trumpets peal and the consular army rises in triumph to the Capitoline Hill.

A consular army of two legions was sent in the latter year, and, so far as we can tell, the island remained peaceful for the next decade.

Hannibal had defeated the equivalent of eight consular armies (16 legions plus an equal number of allies).

A typical Consular army of the 2nd Punic War would have much more Italian cavalry.

A praetor or a propraetor could only command a single legion and not a consular army, which normally consisted of two legions plus the allies.

Where both consular armies were marching together, a twin-camp was established, back-to-back, so that the overall shape was rectangular.

The defeated consular armies fell back to Rome to regroup while Spartacus' followers moved northward.

None the less, when the Romans joined together two consular armies, they made two encampments and had the parts of the disarmed men face each other.

The Roman consular armies, free of Hannibal, united and resumed their harassment of Capua.