Talk:Cohort (military unit)

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Why does this just redirect to "legion"? Now we can't have pages for anything about other uses of the word "cohort". Wiwaxia 17:38, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Original text ; a sub-division of the Roman infantry. Originally it was a sub-unit of a Roman legion, consisting of 480 men, itself divided in 6 centurias commanded each by a centurion. In the Imperial Roman auxiliary forces, there were individual cohorts of 500 (quingenaria), and 1000 (miliaria), as well as mixed infantry and cavalry units (cohors equitata) that existed in parallel.

I can not find any listing that a cohort is 480 men. I do that it is 600 men like in this dictionary. I have changed it. About that a cohort also can be 500 men I do not know that is true. --Walter 17:56, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

created a disambiguation page and moved Cohorts to Cohort (military unit)--Tombombadil 6 July 2005 17:45 (UTC)

" The cohort itself was divided into six centuries of 80 men" Written by a total ignoramus - a Century, as the name implies means precisely 100 men, nothing more, nothing less. His other statistics are also all ridiculously inaccurate, like the 480 man cohort.