The Birth and Death of a Roman Legion DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2020
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A military history documentary on the birth and death of a roman legion in the era of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. We begin the episode by taking a look at Rome's earliest legions which came in the form of levies. These would have been called up in a process led by the consuls whereby able bodied men were assigned a legion and then a unit role within the formation based on their wealth and age class. Once mustered, these legions of the Republican Roman Army would march to war. Initially these outings only lasted a year and the army would be disbanded after each campaign. However as Rome expanded its military campaigns this system began to change.
By the 2nd Century BC, Roman soldiers were serving abroad with their legion for several years and commanders could sometimes expect to have their terms of command extended. In addition, both the number of legions in the Roman Army and those who could command them was increased. The method of recruitment also changed as can be seen with the Marian Reforms. Thus by the end of the Roman Republic, the army was already headed away from a mere annual levy and towards a semi-professional force.
Following the civil wars, Augustus reformed the Roman Army to include a draw down of forces from 60 to just 28 legions. These now became professional, salaried, volunteer troops who served 15 years until receiving their pension upon retirement. The organization of the legions also changed slightly to be more consistently made up of 10 cohorts. This new army of the Roman Empire was born at the whim of the Emperors who held ultimate control over military forces. Recruitment was undertaken by officers in designated areas with recruits being put to the test, made to take an oath, and being sent to join their unit. Once formed, these roman legions could last centuries.
The way they died is the subject of the last part of our video. This generally involves death in battle, attrition, merging, and disbandment. We also include some practical examples of these from the service history of various legions.
Sources and Recommended Reading
Legionary, The Roman Soldier's Manual by Philip Matyszak
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Roman Army by Chris McNab
Legions of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
Roman Legionary by Ross Cowan
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The intro looked like someone just shot a Roman soldier with a fucking gun lol.
To everyone saying it should be XIV, during this time it was actually written XIIII as the other way was the informal used by the plebea
Thank you. i was ready to ask for this :D
Bravo
To think that we are actually some plebs hurts my pride so much.
@@jeto9625 Oh my dear sweet summer child...
@Tim Clemens Is this actually true, and if so, could you provide me a link to read please? Not trying to say youre wrong, but I was taught throughout school that "IV" was always written as "IIII" because the Latin for Jupiter is "IVPPITER". Been googling for over an hour to see if I can find out the truth, and ive found the "IVPPITER" hypothesis a few times but I cant find anything about informal Roman numerals. Ty.
1:42 Birth of a republican legion
3:19 Death of a republican legion
5:23 Birth of an imperial legion
8:10 Death of an imperial legion
Would you put the timing into the description, please?
could you please add timestams in description for future videos?
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Interesting name. Why'd you choose that Legion specifically? Or is it just because it was the first ever Roman Legion?
@@thalmoragent9344 I'm Italian , felt right
@@Legio1Italica I conquered the whole Gaul with you in total war Rome II
@@mahdinaseryan5146 so did I. Though unfortunately during a war with the Persians they were killed off in the battle of lumare. In a battle that lasted almost an hour in real time between three of my great legions vs six of there armies of filth. Legio I italica was the first to make contact with the enemy in the first ten minutes of battle my veteran legionnaires had cut down a whole army of soldiers with only a hundred or two casualties spread out across the line. Of course that didn’t last too long as the rest of the armies they had brought to battle arrived along with my reinforcements. With Italica taking up the center and the reinforcement troops holding the flanks the Persian assault hit in a great way. And cutting a long story shorter we were overwhelmed completely with only legio lll Etrusca escaping through the efforts of the other two. Then the next turn I raised up a new legion as a legacy of the original.
@Osama Barrack Bin Brahmin I miss that campaign call me nostalgic. And I loved that legion it was my first legion in my first campaign. So let’s just say I loved it like a child
At one point in my life I studied classical civilization for fun so much that I completely stopped using the word 'summer' and replaced it with 'campaigning season'.
When I have watched your new vids I go back to the old ones so I can keep on learning and listening 👌 thanks man
So glad to be a well of learning for you : )
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The Eagles of a legion were so important that one of Augustus' terms in a treaty with the Parthian King Phraates IV was the return of the symbols lost by Crassus' army at the Battle of Carrhae; one revolt in Africa known as the Gildonic War was defeated pretty much in a bloodless manner when the loyalist commander sent to supress the rebellion stuck the arm of the standard bearer of the rebel party sent to negociate with him, for the rebels in the distance the fall of the Eagle looked like they were signaling the surrender and thus they followed suit; also when Heraclius won the last war against the Sasanian Empire and sacked the capital he recovered a lot of the Eagles lost to them in their wars during the previous centuries.
Well the eagles served as both the legion’s direct authority given to them by the emperor and the authority given by Jupiter (Zeus) since the eagle was his holy symbol. By losing their eagle, the legion loses both its authority and direct connection to their gods. If the legion was still functional by the time their eagle is stolen, it would utterly cripple the morale of the legionaries. Since legionaries (like most soldiers in history and even today) were very religious and superstitious, many would often pray to the eagle directly. In their minds, losing their eagle is the equivalent to losing their gods’ favor and even gaining their ire.
Adding on, losing their eagle means insulting the memories of all the men who had served under the eagle before them. It was a fate worse then death. For Christians today, it would be the same as damning yourself to the very deepest depths of hell. Often times, entire cohorts would fight to the death to ensure the survival of their aquilifer (the man entrusted with the safety of the eagle standard).
@@WraithLK During one of the battles against the Macedonians one of the tribunes threw one Eagle towards the enemy as a rather extreme way to motivate the soldiers and brake the stalemate they were facing while fighting head-on against the phalanx, it moved them to further effort and reckless action but did not helped them to win the battle that way though but it shows the power those symbols held in their minds yes.
@@Sealdeam same thing during the 70 AD siege of Jerusalem. They appatently threw their eagles over the wall to make brave soldiers go out and fight and return them, though at that point in the siege it got more Roman killed
@@ojc8902 it seems those kind of symbols provoked superstition and even dread not only for the soldiers that fought under them but also in the enemy, one of the accounts of the Late Empire civil wars says that the emperor Licinius came to fear Constantine's standard to the point he forbade his soldiers to attack it when in battle, this probably was propaganda made up during Constantine's or his sons' reign but is another example of the power and importance those objects had in their culture, even a much earlier rebellion against Claudius was said to have failed when the Eagles of the legions were not able to be lifted from the ground which was taken as a particularly bad omen and made the soldiers stay loyal to Claudius.
There is still a city in Spain called León which draws its name from the latin ¨Legio¨, since it was originally the camp of the VI Victrix and later VII Gemina legions (the later settling permanently).
As a curiosity, León means ¨lion¨ in Spanish, and the symbol of the VII Gemina is not known, so who knows, maybe the name of the city and the later kingdom of León comes from a possible symbol of the legion.
There's even a school named Legio VII here in Leon.
@@stephenmackeysantos3771 then maybe its from legio VII
That actually makes a lot of sense. Interesting!
I think the people of Leon just forgot their original name and asumed it refered to the animal, instead of "Legio", thus taking the symbol of the lion as theirs.
@@Drosio_AV
So they possibly mistook the name of Legio because of the Legion that was once there and thought it was instead because of the animal, not the actual legion?
Perhaps the Legion had the symbol of a Lion on its banner as well, so either way, that Roman Legion gave rise to that Spanish town and its name. Cool how names and such change through time and how they affected names of things even to this day.
there was a syrian legion (Legio III Gallica) stationed near my home city of homs (syria) and they would regularly come to watch the weird plays of heliogaabalus. it was there where julia maesa convinced the legion with riches and power on the condition they install the 14 year old heliogaabalus as emperor. they agreed and the severan dynasty was restored.
if you're interested, its here on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Maesa
Oh great Heraklios, your victory against the Persian hordes at Nineveh lives forever in the annal of history.
ohh an Augusta! Very interesting read! Thank you!
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The only legion from the imperial era that I know of that was disbanded and later reformed is the Legio III Augusta, which was based in North Africa. Apparently the last legion for which we have records is the Legio V Macedonica, which still existed in 637 AD.
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"LEGIO IIII SCYTHIA"? IIII??!?!?!!
@@HavanaSyndrome69 It's an acceptable way to write IV, plus I think they needed 2 more characters to make the text bar symmetrical with the above image
I know you put a lot of work into these videos but I have a question. I noticed that the numeral for the Fourth Scytian Legion was IIII but I was taught that IV was the proper way to denote the number four in Roman numerals. Was this an oversight or was there some wiggle room in these type of things? Oh never mind. I guess it was a plebea thing.
@@tungstentrain1956 No, it is NOT an acceptable way. They wrote Legio VIIII instead of IX which would be correct.
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Legio IX Hispana still got me fucked up
Never realized just how long Rome existed for until he said that a legion was "twice the age of the US"
The empire lasted from 27 BC to 1453 AD
@@ChristianAuditore14 A man of culture
@@ChristianAuditore14 and that is only the empire and not the republic!
@@rolandxd7514 nor the kingdom!
The US is a baby compared to most countries
This is as close as we've been to in years of a new episode in the Evolution of the Roman Legions series that had its single episode 4 years, 6 months, 25 days ago. Really hoping this recent spate of episodes on units of history means we'll soon see that series continued and finished.
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Top notch videos. Simon Scarrow has a great series of books on individual legions and their history of service to Rome.
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Edit: Finally. Also does this count as a continuation of the Evolution of the Roman Legions?
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Maybe. since it covers topics that weren't the focal point of that previous vid
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Would you do a similar video on auxiliaries/mercenaries and note any differences between them if possible
1. Legions never "dispersed". Referring to Caesar as sometimes having legions at half strength of the usual 5000 men, although being true, has nothing to do with legions just "dispersing" in the late empire, as there are no accounts of legions that disappeared in this way. Caesar can also be quoted as sometimes having legions of 6,000 men, sometimes even more. The legions at Caesar's time did not have the same organisation as they did in the late empire. Therefore, he cannot be quoted here. Although late imperial legions did number very few men, sometimes closer to 1,000, they never dispersed without being disbanded, merged, or filled up with auxiliaries by a higher authority.
2. The 14th legion might have been massacred and humiliated during the Gallic wars, but was highly respected afterwards, and especially after crushing the revolt of Boudicca. It did not "fade into obscurity" or suffer "ignominy" by being stationed at the Danube river. Legions that served along the Danube and Rhine were highly respected, as they protected Rome against its most dangerous borders. The 14th was stationed at Carnuntum, which was the headquarters of Marcus Aurelius during the Marcomannic wars, proving that their position on the Danube was among the most important in the late empire.
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Very instructive for a Roman history fan without the theoretical ground of a historian. Thanks to the host.
@Invicta
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Roman legions remember total war stacks, they keep getting experience and renom until they are annihilated
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Rome still lives in our hearts
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What does this translate to, exactly? Though I do know that Rome was labeled as "The Eternal City"
@@thalmoragent9344 Roughly "Rome (is) eternal".
Too soon?
13!!! awesome vid.
Nice video.
Hovewer by the title of the video i thought its gonna be about how
roman legion based on heavy infantry became outdated and outclassed
by other military techniques.
Sword in Mouth man at 10:52 had me wincing hard. Another good video.
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Where you have the segment about the "twinned" legions, you are actually showing the
VIIII (9TH) Hispania Legion, whilst saying the Spanish Legion (the VII / 7th), and at the
same time mentioning that the 7th was twinned with the 18th (one of the 3 Legions that
suffered the "annihilation" of the Teutoburg Forrest. The fact was that the utter shame
that was inflicted on the famous Augustus (who presided over Rome at it's most power)
was that the 17th, 18th, 19th Legions were never again mentioned, and definitely never
again formed, reformed or "twinned" with any other Legion. It is noted that the VII 7th
Legion was one of the two Legions involved in Julius Caesars 1st "preliminary invasion"
back in 55/54 BC & fought in the Civil War with Caesar at Pharsalus & the Dacian Wars.
With the XIIII (14th) Gemina Legion, was one of three definite Legions attested to have
crossed the channel into Britain in the initial invasion, another Legion may have been
sent later as reinforcement. The other two Legions definitely sent were the VIIII (the 9th)
Hispania & the XX (the 20th) Valeria Victrix. These three legions were raised/reinforced
with soldiers from Hispania, Gaul & Italia, at a later date, after suffering some losses
during the warrior Queen Boudica's rebellion, some soldiers were sent from Germania
and also from Batavia (Netherlands) to replace some of the losses. In an interesting
side note, to sort of "twin" your story of the 18th being "twinned" is that the XIIII (14th)
was later sent to Germania, a decade after the Tuetoburg Forrest massacre, and was
successful, along with a couple of other Legions, recovering some of the lost standard
Eagles, burying the bleached bones of their fallen comrades, and restoring some pride
to the Roman Legions, who suffered one of their greatest losses at the hands of the
once Roman "Allied" Arminius & his warriors (there's a famous poem about the battle)
It is very likely that the soldiers from the 14th Gemina, buried the remains of the fallen
soldiers from the 18th, the 17th & the 19th as well. There were no survivors, only a few
officers on horseback, (the equestrian) managed to escape.
*Note: There have been some interesting "theories" bandied about willy-nilly about the
fate of the VIIII (9th) Hispania Legion, the one you show with the "bull" being "twinned",
there is a 'CHILDRENS BOOK" by Rosemary Suttcliffe, where she fictionizes about the
Legion being wiped out by the Pictish warriors in Scotland, and they steal their Roman
Standard of the Eagle, all this totally imagined, as there have been no records written
or spoken about from Rome itself. We need to keep in mind, this particular Legion had
fought "everywhere" for over two centuries, and had a "ferocious reputation", fighting in
places like Gaul, Spain, Civil Wars, the Caesar take-over, and many other wars. It has
been clearly proved that the "DISAPPEARANCE" of such a senior and famous Legion
such as the VIIII, caused the Roman Emperor at the time - Hadrian, to immediately
leave his luxurious surroundings in Rome, getting fed grapes, drinking wine, and eating
roast boar, to then trek to Spain, pick up another Legion (I had read previously it was
the VI 6th Legion) and went there to Northern Britain in person, then had the soldiers
at his command build a wall (Hadrian's Wall) .....The question that is pertinent here is,
"who was Hadrian so keen on keeping out of England?" Picts or the VIIII Legionaires.
After this, the once famous VIIII (9th) Hispania Legion was never ever mentioned by
Roman Historians, all records, carvings, paintings, and achievements were scratched
almost like they never existed, an "expungement" that Stalin himself would be proud of.
It seems almost certain, that the VIIII Legion 'abandoned their posts' in the very North
Border, the Northern extremity of their Empire, permanent AWOL, DESERTING the army
they had served for so long, and probably joining forces with some Celts/Picts, going
on to conquer some Northern landscapes for themselves without Rome.
Awesome
Very nice video as always. By the way the early legions assembled on the Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), not the capital (or Capitol?).
The Storm before the Storm is by the author of The History of Rome Podcast Mike Duncan, his podcast covers all the way from the founding of Rome to the Western Empires destruction, it is something like 46 hours long but is a masterpiece.
True to form his book is also brilliant and focusses from the first outbreak of political violence in Rome (133 BCE) then into Marian and Sullan era before Gaius Julius Caesar, a period which sets the backdrop for the Caesarian takeover of the Republic.
I bought the audiobook as well as the paperback version and was delighted to discover Mike actually narrated it himself, truly a wonderful and worthy purchase.
If you are a fan of The History of Rome, there is a podcast called the History of Byzantium which is run by Robin Pierson who continues the narrative in the same vain as Duncan all the way to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and he also does a great job.
Anyone that loves Rome...I believe I speak for most people here...
Really makes Warhammer 40k so amazing!
Its Rome in space,
Sol Invictus as the Emperor of Mankind, and his 20 demigod sons with "Emperor-like" qualities of personality and ability.
The amount of Parallels between Rome and 40k are endless and they are so juicy when you find and appreciate them.
The emporer would not stand for such heresy. Despatch the inquisition, prepare the exterminatus
I like your lead figures in the background. I bet you've played Warhammer
Can you make a vid on the 9th legions missing and the battle of teuteburg forest. Especially the first topic is extremely interesting so I would be very happy if you cover it in one you your vids.
god i love your style so much
The artist is indeed fantastic. We put up episode artwork for download to Patrons if you are interested: www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory
Damn i love learning about Rome.
You don't honestly believe i'm going to skip parts of your video, do you??? I'm here to see it all!
Make another campaign video like the siege of Jerusalem or cannae 💪🏻👌🏻 it was truly amazing work my friend 😎👌🏻
Not what i expected by the title. But it was still very good
Will you do a video about roman boot camp ?
I see you have Aztec Warfare by Ross Hassig. Hopefully you find time to cover politics and warfare in the Valley of Mexico before the Spanish Conquest. Fascinating history there!
Please make a video on Pallava Empire
Speaks french. Flashback to Oakley times. What was it? Halo (forge) productions?
we got an OG fan here : )
I know early family life for Roman citizens has been covered, but I would also like to know more about what happens to an individual Legion when he died; were there funerals? were bodies buried or left behind, even in victory? Thank you for a great video, learning history makes long quarantine days easier.
@Invicta sometime can you talk about the Rorarii? I feel like they are completely ignored in Roman history
I love that model of Timgad (?sp) in Algeria near the end there.
I remember asking for this exact information in reddit a few months ago!
What's the name of the music that plays from around 3 minutes onwards?
Please do video on the standard bearer
At 2.49 you use what appear to be "Bull God Esque" unit icons from Rome II (Total War)! Kudos.
That Roman Army one is pretty good overview. Wow saw a book I actually have.
And for Legion reborn story, there was Legion for Africa, that supported wrong candidate. They were disbanded, and name removed from scrolls.
But they had vexillation in north, and the men there swore an oath to have their Legion reinstated. And they got their wish after years of fighting.
3:57 Hehe, "as the centuries rolled by." 😁
What about auxillaries? Can you please go deeper into that, the problems that they had etc?
Good plug. And super good idea with the time stamps. (Also you wrote Legio VII Hispana as Legio VIIII Hispana, just sayin)
5:11 what happened to that one shield on the right with the symbols on it
Can you talk about the housing and architecture of carthage?
you should get to " A Storm Before the Storm"
How you are not at 5m+ subscribers is beyond me. Such quality is massively unrecognised. How much better would this world be if the same number of people watched actual useful channels like yours as opposed to the brain rotting ones... keep it up Invicta!
From all the things you said, the only I couldn't understand is how you shorten up 600 pages of History of the Peloponnesian war in 15 min of well digested central ideas! 😅 I've just finished 2 months of bus reading Tucícides, with some comments written at home after work. Now I'm moving on to David Ricardo. I definitely recommend the shortened versions as introduction to anything, never as a replacement!
8:40 Sounds like Fort Hood,TX combat arms units !
There's this old Amiga 500 game called Centurion (link below if you want to play it online for nostalgic purposes) where- among other things- you'd have to raise legions. Each territory/ region would have a region-specific level of courage, so if you were to raise a legion in Pontus or Cilicia, where the courage level was 'Weak,' the legion as a whole would have 'Weak' courage. If you raise the legion in Italy or Macedonia or Thracia, where the base courage level is 'Fierce,' then the whole legion would have 'Fierce' courage. Also, if you raise a legion in Italy, with 'Fierce' courage, but there were only 1,000 men available at that time, so you schlepped those 1,000 'fierce' men over to Pontus and strengthened/ reinforced the legion there in Pontus, the influx of those four or five thousand extra 'weak' men would drag the average courage level of the legion all the way back down to 'Weak!'
There were other neat features, too. Like:
When you start out, you're only able to command a basic army (about 4,200 men). At the level of Centurion, you can raise a second legion. At the rank of Tribue, you can upgrade your legions to Cavalry Legions, raising 300 more men as cavalry (4,500 men). Eventually getting all the way up to raising Consular Legions (about 6,600 men). You also needed to build a fleet/ fleets, to be able to reach island nations like Sicilia, Sardinia and Britannia . You could fight other armies on land, you could fight other fleets on sea, you could have legions boarded onto a fleet and then take that fleet into combat against another army aboard another fleet!!! It wasn't just about conquest, either. If you wanted to (there were some great benefits to doing the following) you could diplomatically negotiate the surrender of an army or offer an alliance to another nation. If you made an alliance with Egypt, when your armies reach there, you get a bonus-cut-scene, where you had the chance to err... "negotiate" a... "merger" with Cleopatra. By that, I mean, you could talk your way into her bedroom. In the interests of historical accuracy, of course...
Anyway, it's a wonderful game, with much more to it than the parts I've described. After watching this video, I can't get that game out of my head. It's been maybe 30 years since I played it (since I even owned an Amiga 500), so I'm very happy to note that it's available to play via dosbox, by using the link below. It's all legal and above-board. The game is abandonware, so it's a free-for-all. You don't have to dig up your dos line commands, you just click the 'play' tab and the website does all the rest, allowing you to get straight into it. Now that I've found the link for you all, I'm gonna go get me some sweet, sweet conquest!!!
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Comments 7 hours earlier and I was during the stream
Why was 4 in this video on the flags as iiii not iv?
Yay, ten minutes 🤗