Detail Artifact
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| Aerial View of Republican Troops Marching on a Road |
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| Photograph |
| Spanish Civil War |
| Photograph taken by reconnaissance aircraft of Republican troops in a disorganized march on a road. Possibly taken by a Condor Legion aircraft. |
| Probably Authentic |
| Related: Marching |
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| Related Facts | |
| The steady, regular marching step was a marked feature of Roman legions. Vegetius wrote "They should march with the common military step twenty miles in five summer-hours, and with the full step, which is quicker, twenty-four miles in the same number of hours". |