The equites singulares Augusti or equites singulares Imperatoris (lit: "personal cavalry of the emperor" i.e. imperial horseguards) were the cavalry arm...
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Praetorian Guard (section Speculatores Augusti)
close protection security detail with the Singulares/equites singulares Augusti (modelled on the Singulares of a provincial governor, a post held by Trajan)...
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navales – Two men elected to equip and repair the Roman navy. Equites singulares Augusti – Elite cavalry unit tasked to guard the Roman Emperors. Usually...
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Roman Emperor Constantine the Great as a replacement for the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard. The Scholae survived...
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as cavalrymen. The presence of equites in the Roman cavalry diminished steadily in the period 200–88 BC as only equites could serve as the army's senior...
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for their indirect successors, the Emperor's horse guards, the Equites singulares Augusti. A Batavian contingent was used in an amphibious assault on Ynys...
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Augustus. He doubled the size of the imperial escort cavalry, the equites singulares Augusti, to 2,000 by drawing select detachments from alae on the borders...
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in Rome for the mounted bodyguard of the Roman emperors (the Equites singulares Augusti). The Castra Nova was so-called because it was the newer of the...
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Jupiter Dolichenus on behalf of the well-being (salus) of the emperors, to Sol Invictus and the Genius of the military unit equites singulares Augusti...
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number of horsemen. Traianus created the Imperial horseguards, the Equites Singulares Augusti, formed from his proconsular horseguard he had when he was the...
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