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The traditional date for the foundation of Rome is 753 BCE. As a city, it had its citizen militia to defend it and its lands, so its army dates from then.

Whether 753 is accurate we don't really know but archeological evidence supports something like this. There is evidence of earlier villages on the hills, but if we are talking about Rome, this is about as good as it gets.

In the 1980s an Italian archaeologist found a gate of a wall near the Palatine Hill which has been dated to the 2nd quarter of the 8th century BC. This may be the wall that Romulus was said to have built around the Palatine Hill when he founded Rome. In 2005 the same archaeologist published the details of further finds. He said that he found the foundations of a royal palace and the temple of the goddess Vesta which have been dated to the same time. These finds also may support the date of the foundation of Rome.

Romulus was said to have formed an army of 3,000 infantrymen and 300 cavalrymen.

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