A vexillatio (pl.: vexillationes) was a detachment of a Roman legion formed as a temporary task force created by the Roman army of the Principate. It was...

by both infantry and cavalry. It could designate a vexillation (Latin: vexillatio), a detachment from a larger unit, though it was most likely also a standard...

legion. However, that is not entirely clear from surviving sources (see vexillatio). The only existent Roman military vexillum is dated to the first half...

senior officers. Vexillatio – A temporary task force of one or more centuriae detached from the legion for a specific purpose. A vexillatio was commanded...

15 km west of Jerusalem) marks the presence of a vexillatio (detachment) of X Fretensis: VEXILLATIO LEG X FRE Some fragments bearing the "L.X.F" mark...

office. Princeps ordinarius vexillationis: centurion in command of a vexillatio (detachment). Princeps peregrinorum ("commander of the foreigners"): centurion...

was a senior officer, sometimes called a comes, who commanded a cavalry vexillatio. As tribounos, the title survived in the East Roman army until the early...

participation of the legions II Adiutrix and IV Flavia Felix and a detachment (vexillatio) from VI Ferrata. The Dacians repelled the first attack, but the Romans...

celebrating the legion, and showing the legion's lion (259–260). Another vexillatio was present in the army of the emperor of the Gallic Empire Victorinus:...

involved major troop movements, including the dispatch of a detachment (vexillatio), comprising some 3,000 soldiers. Fronto writes about military losses...

from the peninsula. Several decades later the camp was restored by a vexillatio of the Legio I Italica; it hosted a detachment of the Legio XI Claudia...

Dedication to the god Sol Invictus, by a vexillatio of the Legio VI Victrix under the command of Agricola....

Vigiles were stationed at the harbour cities of Ostia and Portus. A vexillatio (detachment) of four centuries was detached from Rome for four months...

revelatory, velamen, velar, velate, veliger, velum, vexil, vexillary, vexillatio, vexillum, voile †vēxillum vēxill- flag vēna vēn- vein devein, intravenous...

became permanent in some cases, establishing new unit types, e.g. the vexillatio equitum Illyricorum based in Dacia in the early 2nd century and the equites...

calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. A vexillatio (sub-unit or detachment) of Legio III Augusta is destroyed by an ambush...

their strongholds. The Romans built a fortress and stationed a sub-unit (vexillatio) of the "Ravenna squadron". Charax was a very important strategic point...

the tombstone at Chester could be a Dacian cavalryman, belonging to a vexillatio of cohors I Aelia Dacorum. P. A. Holder suggest that the cohort was created...

Late Roman army. They were one of several categories of cavalry unit or vexillatio created between the 260s and 290s as part of a poorly understood reorganization...

XXII Primigenia Legion ? Legion Vexillatio of Legio III Augusta Vexillatio Vexillatio of Legio XII Fulminata Vexillatio Cohors Hispanorum Aravacorum Auxilia...

in 67 with the legions V Macedonica, X Fretensis, XV Apollinaris, one vexillatio of 1,000 legionaries of the XXII, and 15,000 soldiers from the Eastern...

cavalry unit against usurpers Ingenuus and Regalianus (260, Moesia). A vexillatio fought against Victorinus (Gaul, 269–271). The legion returned to Oescus...

Late Roman army. They were one of several categories of cavalry unit or vexillatio created between the 260s and 290s as part of a reorganization and expansion...

which was definitively destroyed along with the entire Roman garrison: a vexillatio of the Legio IIII Scythica and the cohors XX Palmyrenorum sagittariorum...

Inscription from Abu Ghosh mentioning a vexillatio of the Xth Roman Legion, Fretensis...

During the 2nd century some units with the new names numerus ("group") and vexillatio ("detachment") appear in the diploma record. Their size is uncertain,...

both: first a detachment, later followed by the rest of the legion: a vexillatio Britannica ("British detachment") is also attested at Nijmegen in this...

period of strife with Parthia in 123, Tiberius Claudius Quartinus led a vexillatio, or detachment, drawn from II Traiana and Legio III Cyrenaica to the banks...

his army, as they approached Artaxata. The Roman force, reinforced by a vexillatio of X Fretensis, marched in a hollow square, with the legions supported...

200 or 400-600 400-600 Cuneus 200-300 Cohors 160-500 Equites 80-300 Legio 800-1,200 500 Schola 500 Milites 200-300 Vexillatio 400-600 Numerus 200-300...