Heavy infantry
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Heavy infantry refers to heavily armed and armoured ground troops, as opposed to medium or light infantry, in which the warriors are relatively lightly-armoured.
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[edit] History of the heavy infantry
[edit] Antiquity
[edit] Ancient Greece
In ancient Greece the Hoplite was the common infantry.
[edit] Rome
Roman Heavy Infantry were called Legionaries, heavily armed soldiers with two pilum to throw at enemy troops.
[edit] Middle Ages
[edit] Knights
[edit] Modern age
[edit] See also
- Infantry
- Light infantry
- Phalanx
- Roman infantry tactics, strategy and battle formations
- Military history
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