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

your weekly fix of 10 minutes of concentrated ancient warfare, which will completely distract you

from anything else that's going on in the world today whilst you think about what was

happening some

2,000 or more years ago. Of course, what I do here is I attempt to the answer the questions of

viewers and listeners and readers of the magazine, the podcast, backers on Patreon, senders of postcards,

emails, people who stop me in the street. This one's a comment from a video.

I can't remember which actual episode it comes from, but it begins, this episode made me think

of a question. Thank you. And it comes from Lexington 476. Thank you, Lexington 476. You, of course,

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Now, Lexington's question, this episode made me think of a question. In the

Western Empire, what was the last recorded legion to take the field as a formed slash cohesive

unit? And the same question for the Eastern Empire. All right. So, let's deal with, well, are they the same legion?

There's all sorts of interesting things about the legions, and I think I spoke quite some time ago,

several years ago now probably, about the legions.

They all seem to disappear, and we get records of them in the late 4th, early 5th century.

And mostly by the fall of the Roman Empire, we don't get mention of them again.

And the interesting thing there, of course, is, and I say this because I'm just about to write up an article about the 10th Legion at the Siege of Amida in 359.

Now, in that case, the Legion we know is 10.

Fritensis.

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