Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me,

Murray, your weekly break from reality to think about what warfare was like hundreds,

if not thousands of years ago.

And of course, what we do here is we get questions from you, listeners, viewers,

readers, and we attempt to answer them. So obviously some questions are too big or too small.

I say that because this question that I'm going to answer now is perhaps one of the former

too big to answer in 10 minutes. We'll see how we go. As a clue, I might answer it in nine minutes.

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Right.

Now, today's question is from John.

As I say, it is a biggie.

So hopefully I can do it justice in the eight minutes I have left.

What happened to the Ninth Legion?

Righty-ho, gosh.

Now, my view on this is perhaps controversial

and maybe not what you've heard before.

So, and in fact, I'm going to tack on something else.

The reason for that, of course, is famously,

and probably down to Rosemary Sutcliffs,

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