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16 mar 2011 · The disappearance of Rome's Ninth Legion has long baffled historians, but could a brutal ambush have been the event that forged the England-Scotland border?
The absence of any record of the Ninth Legion after the late second century AD, combined with the lack of archaeological evidence of their continued presence, has led many historians to conclude that the legion disappeared.
15 paź 2018 · The question of what happened to the Ninth Legion is one of the great mysteries of history. Its sudden disappearance from all records at the start of the Second Century AD has brought about various theories about its fate, including one that Rosemary Sutcliffe used for her famous novel, ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’.
Legio IX Hispana ("9th Hispanian Legion"), [1] also written as Legio VIIII Hispana, [2] was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least AD 120. The legion fought in various provinces of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
16 gru 2021 · What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion? In 2011, blockbuster film The Eagle brought one of the great mysteries of Roman Britain to UK cinema screens. Here Miles Russell asks, what really befell the Legion of the Ninth?
21 lut 2019 · An inscription from the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 AD-180 AD) has been discovered which provides a list of all Roman Military units at that time and Legion IX Hispana is conspicuously missing.
25 maj 2024 · After Caesar‘s assassination in 44 BC, the Ninth Legion was disbanded, and its veterans were settled in the region of Picenum. However, the legion was soon reconstituted by Caesar‘s heir Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus. From 29 to 19 BC, the Ninth fought in Octavian‘s campaigns to conquer and pacify Hispania, the Iberian Peninsula.
