A cohort (from the Latin cohors, pl.: cohortes; see wikt:cohors for full inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion. Although...

curriculum Cohort (floating point), a set of different encodings of the same numerical value Cohort (military unit), the basic tactical unit of a Roman...

Aeneator – Military musician such as a bugler Agrimensor – A surveyor (a type of immunes). Antesignano – Supposedly a light infantry unit of legionaries...

manipular system was faded from ancient sources and was replaced by the cohort unit. Polybius first described the maniple in the mid-2nd century BC. The...

Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit). In...

is a Latin term (from the stem centum meaning one hundred) denoting military units originally consisting of 100 men. The size of the centuria changed over...

about how many cohortes were equitatae. Spaul accepts only those cohortes specifically attested as equitatae i.e., about 40% of recorded units. Holder estimates...

The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...

A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 100–250 soldiers and usually commanded by a major or a captain. Most companies are formed of three...

plural dracones) was a military standard of the Roman cavalry. Carried by the draconarius, the draco was the standard of the cohort, as the eagle (aquila)...

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents...

 hekatóntarkhos), was a commander, nominally of a century (Latin: centuria), a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed...

The cohortes urbanae (Latin meaning urban cohorts) of ancient Rome were created by Augustus to counterbalance the enormous power of the Praetorian Guard...

literally meaning "cohort of friends". The notion cohort is to be taken not in the strict, military sense (primarily the constitutive unit of a Roman legion;...

"ranks", rows of men who fought as a unit. Under Marius's new system, legions were divided into ten cohorts (cohortes) (roughly equivalent to battalions...

A division is a large military unit or formation, usually consisting of between 10,000 and 25,000 soldiers. In most armies, a division is composed of...

more properly the Vigiles Urbani ("watchmen of the City") or Cohortes Vigilum ("cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police of ancient...

was executed by members of his cohort. The discipline was used by senior commanders in the Roman army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital...

conscription of men (c. 80% of each age cohort), and maintains only a cadre of paid personnel for training and maintaining military readiness. Most of the lower...

legion's main sub-unit was called a cohort and consisted of approximately 480 infantrymen. The cohort was therefore a much larger unit than the earlier...

in the streets. The Vigiles were considered a para-military unit and their organisation into cohorts and centuries reflects this. To double-insure his...

Without standard military unit organization, various more general names are often used; such organizations may be called a troop, group, unit, column, band...

Cohors II Italica Civium Romanorum was a Roman military cohort from Italia formed from Roman citizens. A cohort based in Caesarea is referred to in the Acts...

with the introduction of the cohort (a unit of 480 men) in place of the maniple (a unit of only 160 men) as the basic unit of manoeuvre. This attribution...

same number and all subordinate units of that Corps. Until 2013 the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) had four military districts – Wehrbereichskommando...

legion, in front of the standards of the legion and cohorts, were called antesignani. In military stratagems, it was sometimes necessary to conceal the...

Lucensium [equitata] (2nd cohort from the Conventus Lucensis [partly mounted]) was a Roman auxiliary unit. It is attested by military diplomas and inscriptions...

bravest of the tribes of the area, hardened in the Germanic wars, with cohorts under their own commanders transferred to Britannia. They retained the...

either the Republic or the Emperor. Legions were divided into units called cohorts. Each cohort was divided into three maniples. Each maniple was divided...

planned to call 4,000 recruits annually for basic military training in 2018 and 2019. As the relevant age cohort was about 100,000, this meant that roughly 4%...