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How to use testudo in a sentence

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It was usually the same men in each testudo as each had to know exactly where he was to be placed.
Miles did attempt to make a contribution to operations in Cuba, in the form of a little invention based on the ancient Roman testudo.
Roman soldiers used to form a testudo or tortoise, by some putting their shields over their heads and others in front.
The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell.
Putting on riot gear and forming their shields like a Roman testudo to ward off missiles is only a last resort.
The land-based reptiles of the Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca species were in good clinical condition.
Marvin Suerland had Peter Anders leading the charge from the start with Testudo in close proximity followed by the rest.
Units in Testudo formation will now respond to an order to attack city gates in a City Assault battles.
In Paris, a young physician studying natural history dubbed the recently arrived prize a new species, Testudo gigantea.
Testudo holds an entry in the St Leger and will give us a clue to the strength of the Gordon Stakes form ahead of next Wednesday's Great Voltigeur.
The species was originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Testudo mydas.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. Lydekker prefers to drop the generic term Colossochelys, and call it testudo Atlas.
The testudo, a wooden shelter, was also used, large enough to contain several men.
In length it was only one-third greater than testudo elephantina of the Galapagos Islands.
The testudo Mydas, or sea-turtle, frequent the bays of Antigua.
The sow was a military engine, resembling the Roman testudo.
Among the more important genera are Dermochelys, chelone, and Testudo.
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