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

Before a march, the baggage with the waggons is 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 wagon 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 soldier 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, cestra movere. The greater and heavier was carried on horses and vehicles, and called onera. Hence onera vehiculorum, sarcina hominum. The baggage-horses were denominated sagmentarii equi.

The Roman soldiers in their marches were heavy laden; infomuch, that they were called by way of jest muli mariani, and arvumae. 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, faw, basket, rutrum, hatchet, lorum, 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 Trajan's column we see soldiers represented with this fardle of corn, utensils, pales, &c. gathered into a bundle and laid on their shoulders. Thus inured to labour, they grew strong, and able to undergo 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 forbade all use of carriages; yet, with all their load, they would march, in a summer's day, 20 miles in military rank.