Roman military community and personal identity

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History The University of Liverpool course: Research Skills - Identity language: English abstract: A la Guerre les trois quarts sont des affaires morales la balance des forces réalles n'est que pour un autre quart.(...) hostes vero notis omnibus vadis ubi ex litore aliquos singulars ex navi egredientes conspexerant incitatis equis impeditos adoriebantur plures paucos circumsistebant alii ab latere aperto in universos tela coniciebant. Quod cum animadvertisset Caesar scaphas longarum navium item speculatoria navigia militibus compleri iussit et quos laborantes conspexerat his subsidia submittebat. Nostri simul in arido constiterunt suis omnibus consecutis in hostes impetum fecerunt atque eos in fugam dederunt; neque longius prosequi potuerunt quod equites cursum tenere atque insulam capere non potuerant. Hoc unum ad pristinam fortunam Caesari defuit. While Napoleon stresses the morality of a soldier during and particularly after a battle Caesar (emphasizing the landing of the Roman army in Britain 55 B.C.) on the other hand underlines the necessity of a skilled and tactical well educated commander to reach an army's main target - being successful in any campaign.Both the army as a community and the soldier as an individual within the fighting unit have been heavily significant over all periods of battleship regarding a campaign's success. Consequently it seems to be important to investigate the level of identification of a warrior with the orders of the unit's commander as well as the role of personal identity reflecting on the state that is fought for and especially due to the comradeship in any army throughout military history. Highlighting the theory of identification it might be also momentous to interpret the recognition of the fighting forces after a succeeded campaign and possible results like the existence of respect honour and an increased social status.