Artifact Detail
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| US Army Induction Parade - Fife and Drum |
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| Photograph |
| World War 1 |
| Fife and Drum corps march in a Texas Army Induction Parade. |
| 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". |