One of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. As 5,000 of Rome’s finest […] ...

Soldiers were rigorously trained to march long distances ... had been born in an army camp and was a mascot to the Roman legions. At first, the arrival of Germanicus and his family appeared ...

Somewhere on this march, at a place called Mons Graupius ... but they lacked the organisation and military tactics of a Roman legion. The Romans were tightly disciplined and relied on a short ...

Huddled against the biting cold, many of the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the army of the Roman Republic had served ... But Caesar stood his ground in March 50 B.C. He would not stand down ...

Each legion had between 4,000 and 6,000 soldiers ... After a long day’s march, Roman soldiers had to build a camp, complete with a ditch and a wall of wooden stakes. The next day, they had ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting force in world history up to the end of the empire in the 5th century AD.