Army
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...armies existed in ancient Egypt, China, India, and Assyria, Greece was the first country...own (see Mamluks ; Janissaries ). In medieval Japan and Europe, samurai and knights...division (usually about 15,000 men and women) is the smallest self-contained unit...