in military affairs, denotes the clothes, tents, utensils of divers sorts, provisions, and other necessaries belonging to the army.

Before a march, the waggons with the baggage are marshalled according to the rank which the several regiments bear in the army; being sometimes ordered to follow the respective columns of the army, sometimes to follow the artillery, and sometimes to form a column by themselves. The general's baggage marches first; and each waggon has a flag, showing the regiment to which it belongs.

Packing up the BAGGAGE, vasa colligere, was a term among the Romans for preparing to go to war, or to be ready for an expedition.

The Romans distinguished two sorts of baggage; a greater and less. The lesser was carried by the folder on his back, and called sarcina; consisting of the things most necessary to life, and which he could not do without. Hence colligere sarcinas, packing up the baggage, is used for decamping, cynthia movere. The greater and heavier was carried on horses and vehicles, and called onera. Hence onera vehiculorum, sarcina hominum. The baggage-horses were denominated fagmarii equi.

The Roman soldiers in their marches were heavy loaded; insomuch that they were called by way of jest nulli mariani, and arumae. They had four sorts of luggage, which they never went without, viz. corn, or buccellatum, utensils, valli, and arms. Cicero observes, that they used to carry with them above half a month's provisions; and we have instances in Livy, where they carried provisions for a whole month. Their utensils comprehended those proper for gathering fuel, dressing their meat, and even for fortification or intrenchment; and what is more, a chain for binding captives. For arms, the foot carried a spear, shield, javelins, basket, rurum, hatchet, loom, falx, &c. Also stakes or pales, valli; for the sudden fortifying a camp; sometimes seven or even twelve of these pales were carried by each man, though generally, as Polybius tells us, only three or four. On the Trajan column we see soldiers represented with this fardle of corn, utensils, pales, &c. gathered into a bundle and lain on their shoulders. Thus inured to labour, they grew strong, and able to endure any fatigue in battle; the greatest heat of which never tired them, or put them out of breath. In aftertimes, when discipline grew slack, this luggage was thrown on carriages and porters' shoulders.

The Macedonians were not less inured to hardship than the Romans: when Philip first formed an army, he forbid all use of carriages; yet, with all their load, they would march, in a summer's day, 20 miles in military rank.