Testudo formation
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Defensive shield wall used by Roman Legions
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military unit
- Image
- Colonne trajane 1-57 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Testudo formations
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Testudo
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Roman soldiers in "tortoise" formation
Campaign history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Testudo formation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.