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Old 04-23-2008, 09:11 AM   #3 (permalink)
Feuerbach
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Hello Spongegod,

in the 14th century Dimitrij Donskoj lead an army of 70,000-120,000 men (this numbers are reported by different historical sources) to beat the Tartars, that had an army of also more than 100,000 men. But you can assume that far more than the half of his men were peasants recruited by force.
As much I remeber this was by far the largest army in medieval times.

I'm not an expert, but 400,000 men seems to me unrealitically high concerning Rome.
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