In 232 there was a mutiny in the Syrian legion, who proclaimed Taurinus emperor.

The prefect of Legio II Augusta, Poenius Postumus, stationed near Exeter, ignored the call, and a fourth legion, IX Hispana, had been routed trying to relieve Camulodunum, but nonetheless the governor was able to call on almost ten thousand men.

She said their cause was just, and the deities were on their side ; the one legion that had dared to face them had been destroyed.

A legionary bath-house was built inside the fortress sometime between 55 and 60 and underwent renovation shortly afterwards ( c. 60-65 ) but by c. 68 ( perhaps even 66 ) the legion had transferred to a newer fortress at Gloucester.

The most famous was Masada, where, in 70-73 CE, a small group of Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman legion, and Machaerus where, according to Josephus, John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas and died.

Vespasian was assigned to lead the Roman army against the insurgents, with Titus — who had completed his military education by this time — in charge of a legion.

During the Batavian rebellion, Domitian eagerly sought the opportunity to attain military glory, but was denied command of a legion by superior officers.

For this purpose, a new legion was founded, Legio I Minervia, which constructed some 75 kilometres ( 46 mi ) of roads through Chattan territory to uncover the enemy's hiding places.

Examples include the Achaemenid battle standard Derafsh Kaviani, and the standards of the Roman legions such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion, or the dragon standard of the Sarmatians ; the latter was let fly freely in the wind, carried by a horseman, but judging from depictions it was more similar to an elongated dragon kite than to a simple flag.

The early years in Algeria were hard on the legion because it was often sent to the worst postings and received the worst assignments, and its members were generally uninterested in the new colony of the French.

The legion was seconded by the Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa, formed in 1832, which was a penal military unit made up of men with prison records who still had to do their military service or soldiers with serious disciplinary problems.

Previously, the legion was not stationed in mainland France except in wartime.

Galba was declared a public enemy and his legion was confined in the city of Clunia.

The regiment was intended to combine the characteristics of a colonial corps with those of a foreign legion.

So long as everyone was using the same tactics these weaknesses were not immediately apparent, but with the advent of the Roman legion they proved fatal in every major engagement, the most famous being the Battle of Pydna, as the Romans were able to advance through gaps in the line and easily defeat the phalangites once in close.

They released some of their veteran soldiers, probably from legion XXVIII and colonized them in the city, which was refounded as Colonia Victrix Philippensium.

The cavalry was outnumbered in the legion.

* Heavy infantry: This was the principal unit of the legion.

Each legion was divided into cohorts.

Ranking within the legion was based on length of service, with the senior Centurion commanding the first century of the first cohort ; he was called the primus pilus ( First File ), and reported directly to the superior officers ( legates and tribuni ).

The legion, however, was ambushed and defeated by Jewish rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman leadership.

The Syrian legion then invested Jerusalem, but for uncertain reasons and despite initial gains, withdrew back towards the coast, where it was ambushed and defeated by Judean rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman Empire leadership.

As a result, the specialized anti-elephant Roman chariots were quickly deployed by legion commanders ; though briefly proving effective, the small force was eventually overwhelmed by Greek psiloi.

* When the player chooses to use the Chaos Space Marines in Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War, selecting a Chaos Marine squad may result in the response " We are legion " as the squad's acknowledgment of the player's selection.

The legion, however, was ambushed and defeated by Jewish rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman leadership.

The legion, however, was ambushed and defeated by Jewish rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman leadership.

Standing then with the others, peering into the sun, he saw the bright, multicolored legion, their hair flying like dark banners, only the thunder, the roll of drums, the mad cacophony of the hoofs accompanying them.

* Legions of veterans from the Gallic Wars – Caesar's favourite legion, X Equestris, and those later known with the names of VIII Augusta, IX Hispana, and XII Fulminata

Again according to convention he posted his most experienced legions on the flanks ( the first and the third legion on his left with Pompey himself commanding, the Syrian legions in the center with Scipio, the Cilician legion and the Spanish cohorts on the right with Afranius ), dispersing his new recruits along the center.

Caesar himself commanded the cavalry, he posted the notorious tenth legion on his right under Sulla, with the undermanned eighth and possibly the ninth on his left under Antonius.

Roman bricks are often stamped with the mark of the legion that supervised their production.

Domitian eagerly sought the opportunity to attain military glory and joined the other officers with the intention of commanding a legion of his own.

He fortified the coast facing Ireland, and Tacitus recalls that his father-in-law often claimed the island could be conquered with a single legion and a few auxiliaries.

Hadrian appointed Aulus Platorius Nepos as governor to undertake this work who brought the VIth Victrix legion with him from Lower Germany.

Caesar refused, and marked his defiance in 49 BC by crossing the Rubicon with a legion to march on Rome.

In January 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon river ( the frontier boundary of Italy ) with only one legion and ignited civil war.

When did he have time for love with this legion of women?

The size of a typical legion varied throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4, 200 legionaries and 300 equites ( drawn from the wealthier classes-in early Rome all troops provided their own equipment ) in the republican period of Rome, ( the infantry were split into 30 maniples of 120 legionaries each ), to 5, 200 men plus auxiliaries in the imperial period ( split into 10 cohorts, 9 of 480 men each, plus the first cohort holding 800 men ).

These 3000 men ( twenty maniples of 120 men, and ten maniples of 60 men ), together with about 1200 velites and 300 cavalry gave the mid Republican (" manipular ") legion a nominal strength of about 4500 men.

The club's name is often invoked as a symbol of British sport's legion of plucky but hopeless causes.

Not only did he keep a personal shrine dedicated to her in his bedroom, she regularly appeared on his coinage — in four different attested reverse types — and he founded a legion, Legio I Minervia, in her name.

Each legion, furthermore, had a vexillifer who carried a vexillum or signum, with the legion name and emblem depicted on it, unique to the legion.

The legion that Pompey contributes is his in name only, because it was enlisted in Caesar's territory, and then Caesar contributed another legion that had been with him previously in Gaul.

The sources report specifically the name of only one legion ( IV legion ), but other legions present included the VI, VII, VIII, X Equestris, XII, III, XXVI, XXVIII, XXIX, and XXX, since their veterans participated in the land settlements after the battle.

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 Horus Heresy Novel Series, Erebus is the name of the first Chaplain of the Word Bearers legion.

According to Koch, the name Arawn may be derived from the Biblical name Aaron, the name of Moses ’ s brother, and so is ultimately of Hebrew origin and meaning ‘ exalted .’ That the name ‘ Aaron ’ had currency in Wales as early as Roman times is shown by Gildas who wrote that ‘ Aaron and Iulianus were Christian martyrs at Urbs Legionis ( the ‘ city of the legion ,’ probably Caerllion-ar-Wysg ) in the time of the Emperor Diocletian .’ a cleric of the Old Welsh name Araun witnessed two charters of 860 preserved in the book of Llandaf.

No notice of the game is to be found in the long and learned array of articles on the various games of cards in the Album des Jeux, 12mo., Paris, 1847, a careful collection of modern games of cards by M. Van-Tenac, and its name is legion in the extended Dictionnaire des Jeux of the Encyclopedic Methodique.

The name Caerleon is derived from the Welsh for " fortress of the legion ": the Romans themselves called it Isca after the river Usk ( Welsh Wysg ).

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The legion was disbanded in 70, but reconstituted shortly afterwards under the name of Legio IIII Flavia Felix.

In the Year of the Four Emperors ( 69 ), after the death of Nero, the legion received the name I Italica and fought for Vitellius at the second Battle of Bedriacum, where the Vitellians were defeated by forces supporting Vespasian.

The emblem of the legion was a capricorn ,< ref name =" Keppie ">, The Origins and Early History of the Second Augustan Legion, in, Legions and Veterans: Roman Army Papers 1971-2000, Stuttgart, 2000, p. < span class = plainlinks > 128 .</ ref > used along with the winged horse Pegasus, on the helmets the symbol used by I Adiutrix legionaries was a dolphin.

The obverse features a galley and the name Antony, while the reverse features the name of the particular legion that each issue was intended for ( it is interesting to note that hoard evidence shows that these coins remained in circulation over 200 years after they were minted, due to their lower silver content ).

Legio quinta decima Primigenia ( Fifteenth Firstborn Legion )-a name of the goddess Fortuna ) was a legion of the Roman army.