Visual Timeline: Roman Cavalry

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750 BCE - 510 BCE: The semi-legendary celeres or trossuli - a 300-man cavalry corps which the first kings of Rome incorporated into the legion - is formed, later their number is increased to 600.
 
578 BCE - 535 BCE: Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, increases the number of the cavalry corps (equites) to 1,800.
 
400 BCE: The Roman cavalry is expanded to include riders who can pay for their own horse.
 
216 BCE: Hannibal wins the battle of Cannae, the worst defeat in Roman history.
 
100 BCE: Roman cavalry riders are by now classified as auxilia and organised in wings or alae.
 
 
58 BCE - 51 BCE: Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
 
 
101 CE - 106 CE: Trajan conquers Dacia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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