Soldiery

It was its natural condition – from 1940 to Nelson, to Drake, to Henry VIII, to people in woad throwing rocks at the Roman soldiery: always defiant and always, ultimately, successful.

Alongside this, these contemporary sources present Caracalla as a 'soldier-emperor' for his preference of the soldiery over the senators, a depiction which would have made him even less popular with the senatorial biographers.

Ayton, "The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance" in Ayton & Preston (2005), pp. 25-26 Although considered to be heavy, no reliable figures exist for losses among the common French soldiery.

He advanced into Italy at the head of a licentious and rough soldiery, and Rome became the scene of riot and massacre, gladiatorial shows and extravagant feasting.

He separated the soldiery from the people.

His hard-trained soldiery accomplished what was not thought possible at that time: infantry withstood the Umayyad heavy cavalry.

Homotīmoi were highly and thoroughly educated and thus became the core of the soldiery as heavy infantry.

It was on their black soldiery that the rulers often relied.

P63: Following the plunder of Medina in 1810 'when the Prophet's tomb was opened and its jewels and relics sold and distributed among the Wahhabi soldiery'.

Similarly the previously touted ideal of the fairness of the Muscovy monarchy was contrasted with Herberstein's depiction of peasants as being in "a very wretched condition, for their goods are exposed to plunder from the nobility and soldiery".

The London Mithraeum is one example of the popularity of mystery religions among the soldiery.

The Porte did not maintain the ranks of Janissaries, rather the Pasha in Tunisia himself began to recruit such soldiery from many different regions.

This village the kings of the Parthians were wont to make their winter residence, thus sparing the Seleucians, in order that the Seleucians might not be oppressed by having the Scythian folk or soldiery quartered amongst them.