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AUC27 Germanic Cavalry with Spear (15mm)

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This pack contains four Germanic cavalry.

Caesar had already begun to recruit German cavalry in 51 B.C., using four hundred of them at Noviodunum and when the following year the Vercingetorix revolt spread to the Aedui tribe, Rome's oldest allies in Gaul, he was forced to hire more cavalry and light infantry from across the Rhine.

Caesar later became famous for keeping a Germanic personal bodyguard (although he may well not have been the first Roman General that did). He certainly wasn't the last one, as the Roman Imperial German Bodyguard, also called the Germanic bodyguard, (Latin: Germani corporis custodes or Germani corpore custodes, in the literary sources also called the numerus Batavorum or cohors Germanorum) became a personal, imperial guard unit for all the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty!