04-05-2016, 09:02 AM
Ammianus recounts several episodes where units from one field army were transferred to another. He also gave an account of the famous episode where Sebastianus was allowed to take 300 men from each legion, totalling some 2000 men, so that he could then lead a quick raid upon a large band of Goths camped by the Hebrus river north of Adrianople.
Julian combined at least one Western field army with several Eastern ones when he invaded Sassanid Persia.
Julian combined at least one Western field army with several Eastern ones when he invaded Sassanid Persia.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar