Army Unit Numerical Designations: Where do they come from? http://angrystaffofficer.com/2020/01/12/army-unit-numerical-designations-where-do-they-come-from/ …pic.twitter.com/NDlBmllOPW
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You understand that the regimental numbering system, both state and federal, were always in flux until 1916, correct? They changed. A lot. Within states. By war. And we're by no means the only Army to do it. Look at France and England. England's erased half their old regiments
The Romans numbered legions by consular sequence (so each consul/pro-magistrate might start at I and have legions II, III and so on). When those became permanent formations, the system was kept such that there were 2 IIIs, 2 IVs at one point *four* Legio IIs...
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and a legio XXX, but nothing from XXII to XXIX. So our occasionally silly numbering system puts us in good company!
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Only under the Empire. The Republic would reassign numbers, raising & disbanding legions in a regular basis. Thus Julius Caesar’s favored Legio X had little association with the Legiones X of the Empire.
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Caesar's Legio X is the Imperial Leg. X Gemina, sometimes called Leg. X Equestris after the famous bit with the horses in Gaul. It has a bull as its emblem to explicitly advertise Caesarian origin (he was a Taurus).
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