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15 paź 2018 · Under the command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Ninth marched into modern-day Scotland and helped consolidate Roman rule as far as the river Forth. Although Agricola’s campaign in Scotland achieved success, the Ninth Legion’s experience was far from pleasant.
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 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 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by ...
25 maj 2024 · One popular theory, immortalized in Rosemary Sutcliff‘s 1954 novel "The Eagle of the Ninth," is that the legion was destroyed by Caledonian tribes in the north of Britain. This idea gained some support from the discovery of a legionary eagle buried in an underground chamber at Silchester in 1866.
17 lis 2021 · At Calleva Atrebatum (now Silchester), in 1866, a gilded damaged Roman eagle is found, mistaken for the Legion’s Aquila. Unfortunately, it was later found that the eagle is part of a statue of Jupiter (it was supposed to hold lightning in its claws).
The Ninth Legion, also known as Legio IX Hispana, was a renowned unit of the Roman army that was stationed in Britain during the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the second century AD. However, by the third century AD, the Ninth Legion had disappeared without a trace, leading to countless theories and speculations about their fate.
