5 sentences with 'phalanx'
Example sentences and phrases with the word phalanx and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Philip II also reorganised the infantry into a new type of phalanx that used longer spears than the traditional hoplites; »
• « 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. »
• « 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). »