What Really Happened To The Crucial Roman Legion That Vanished From History? | The Ninth | Timeline

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  @TimelineChannel · 5 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @cardboardempire · 5 years ago

  Timeline....where I automatically fast forward the first 2minutes.

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  @terencehill1971 · 4 years ago

  The Eagle of the Ninth was not only a &quot;must read&quot; book at my junior school--it was a radio play and the whole school would move to the gym and sit upon the wooden floor while the enormous tannoy speaker was wheeled out and the BBC play spoke to us all--at the time I was fascinated by the sound effects--the horses, clanking weapons, shouting in the distance more than the dialogue--all this sixty-five years ago.

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  @JIM378 · 4 years ago

  Rosemary Sutcliff wrote three stories, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers, all centred in Roman Britain. They are collected in a book called &apos;Three Legions.&apos;

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  @thedriszen8350 · 5 years ago

  Got to keep an open mind about this, as there is little record or evidence to go by. But since there were other legions in Britannia (all dealing with various problem tribes), its logical to suspect that at some point it may have been necessary to consolidate legions. It was very costly/difficult to send replacements that far from Rome, so might make sense just to split up the remaining 9th (the worst depleted legion) to quickly bring the others back to full strength. Back in Rome, it may have just seemed a minor bookkeeping oversight. We&apos;ll likely never know.

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  @elyjane6078 · 5 years ago

  The Ninth has been with me since I was very young.

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  @jenniferberensen3048 · 4 years ago

  Ooohh! I read The Eagle of the Ninth and many other Rosemary Sutcliffe novels! So lovely to hear of someone else who has too!

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  @wegladstone1967 · 4 years ago

  I remember the Eagle of the Ninth being broadcast on the radio in the 1950s. It was very well done.I&apos;d loke to near it repeated.

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  @kymmoore853 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The issues with Boudicca had nothing to do with the fact that a vassal state was supposed to leave their worldly goods to the Romans but to do with the fact that, under Roman law, women couldn’t directly inherit, and since half of Prasutagus’ inheritance was left to his daughters the Romans enforced Roman Law and took the lot.

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  @Algimantaz · 5 years ago

  I love how at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK45PRm4zTo&amp;t=815">13:35</a> the governor of Britannia is depicted as getting out of bed all flustered when he hears that Boudicca is attacking 😂 perfectly sums up my idea of how Roman officials were- laying around in robes eating grapes in fancy houses

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  @markaxworthy2508 · 4 years ago

  A contradiction: If the night attack was the last literary reference to the IX Legion, how do we know it was later at Mons Graupius?

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  @alexcore697 · 4 years ago

  There is village just outside Aberdeen called Kintore,It was a huge Roman fort its on the road to Bennachie,,Thats where you will find your beloved 9th probably buried in the bog

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