Meanings of auxiliary troops in English

Foolishly, however, while declining to send auxiliary troops, they despatched envoys.

They came to the fortress as auxiliary troops.

Without the auxiliary troops we shall be hopelessly lost, but with them victory is not impossible.

He feared, however, the auxiliary troops which his aunt would lead into battle to help his mother.

His operation was massive, including his entire Tenth Legion, its auxiliary troops, and thousands of Jewish prisoners of war.

The regular army consisted of legions and supplementa,-thelatter being subdivided into the imperial guards and the auxiliary troops.

It is true that Pilate, in the capacity of procurator, had under his command scarcely any but auxiliary troops.

The greater part of his auxiliary troops were Suessetanians, and these he ordered to advance and assault the wall.

Legionary soldiers, not auxiliary troops.

In 1866, however, Napoleon formally instructed the marshal to advance no more funds and to pay only the auxiliary troops.

But the central rule of Rome was then breaking down: these regulars never returned-thoughmany auxiliary troops may have remained.

The auxiliary troops were encamped in divisions according to their nationality, and between them the Egyptian legions of heavy-armed soldiers and archers.

When they were afterwards formed into regiments and conducted by experienced generals, they became the best auxiliary troops which Egypt could boast of.

She was certainly wrong, however, in wishing the lieutenant-general of her six thousand auxiliary troops to be clothed, as such, with vice-regal powers.

Of auxiliary troops I have a sufficient number, and to spare; but the more numerous we are, the more numerous will be our wants.

Their wishes appeared in the behaviour of the Roman grandees towards Attalus, the brother of Eumenes, who had commanded the Pergamene auxiliary troops in Greece.