5 sentences with 'phalanx'

Example sentences and phrases with the word phalanx and other words derived from it.


« Each soldier in the phalanx was called a hoplite. »
« Philip II also reorganised the infantry into a new type of phalanx that used longer spears than the traditional hoplites; »
« A key military development unique to Greece was the phalanx: a unit of spearmen in dense formation, each using his shield to protect the man on his left. »
« From the phalanx, the Romans would eventually create new forms of military organisation and tactics that would overwhelm the Greeks themselves (albeit hundreds of years later). »
« According to Roman legends, the Etruscans ruled the Romans from sometime in the 8th century BC until 509 BC. During that time, the Etruscans organised them to fight as a phalanx in the Greek lines. »

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