Slingshot Classics - The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Army

An article by Justin Swanton from Slingshot 300 summarizing a long and interesting thread on the SoA Forum about the survival of the Roman army in the Western half of the Roman Empire after the 'official' end of the empire in AD 476.

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Slingshot Classics - The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Army

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