![]() 250 it was still the heavy-armed infantry of the empire which formed the core of battle, and was the hope and stay of the general. ![]() The most characteristic symptom of the tendencies of this period is the gradual disappearance of the Roman legion, that time-honoured organisation whose name is so intimately bound up with the story of Roman greatness. ![]() In war, as in all else, the institutions of the ancient world are seen to pass away, and a new order of things develops itself. ![]() BETWEEN the middle of the third and the middle of the fifth century lies a period of transition in military history, an epoch of transformations as strange and as complete as those contemporary changes which turned into a new channel the course of political history and of civilisation in Europe. ![]()
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