New Vanguard Series
By Mike Guardia, Steven Zaloga, Angus Konstam and
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The Roman Empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a Navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. It was only the existence of the fleet that secured the trade routes and maintained the communications within the huge Empire. At the height of its power the Roman Navy employed tens of thousands of sailors, marines and craftsmen, coming from every corner of the three continents under the rule of the Caesars.
Augustus wanted to create a permanent naval force with its own stable bases, and he was determined to prevent the mistakes of the past be repeated. He had inherited a strong number of naval formations. There was first of all the victorious fleet that Agrippa had brilliantly organized and commanded during the Civil Wars, and that was in the Mediterranean along with the ships and crews of former enemies, especially the fleets of Sextus Pompeius. In the northern seas the formations of Julius Caesar were still operating along the coasts of Gaul, and the fleets that sailed along the Rhine to the east, in the Pontus Euxinus, was still the fleet created by Pompey. In the Levant were all the ships that had belonged to Antonius, as it seems that, in both cases, most of the ships had been moved from their bases to reinforce the fleet of Augustus at Actium.
The basic structure of the navy consisted of two classes, or fleets, each complemented by regional groupings of support in strategic sites. These two classes, based on the new created military harbour of Misenus and Classis, enjoyed a rank comparable to that of the Guardia Pretoria.
The borders with Parthia were not pacified permanently, and in AD 197 new pressures on the frontiers forced the emperor Septimius Severus to get back on his march towards Syria. During the campaign the Roman troops embarked along the Euphrates which already at that time marked the borders between the Empire and Parthia for about 200 miles. At the point where the two rivers are closer, the Romans moved on the Tigris and captured by surprise the capital of the Parthia, Ctesiphon.
Mike Guardia
Mike Guardia is an internationally recognized author and military historian. A veteran of the United States Army, he served six years on active duty as an Armor Officer. He has twice been nominated for the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award and is an active member in the Military Writers Society of America. He holds a BA and MA in American History from the University of Houston. He currently lives in Minnesota.
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