Bah!!!!

[John the Mad]

I didn't say i believed it just that the book said it happened and also gave the name of the legion commander.

I had to go down into the coal cellar to look for the book...do you have any what is in the coal cellar!?

Anyway i found four books,but not the one i want,The Roman Imperial Army of the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. by Graham Webster,Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworth,Mercenaries of the Ancient World by Serge Yalichev,The Making of the Roman army from republic to empire by Lawrence Kepple.

I know i'm not making up what i read..but the coal cellar is dark and scary and i think something tried to bite me.I'll look again tommorow.

[moonburn]

are you talking about the 5th or 7th of cesar that got trapped in belgium and during the retreat got caught in a canyon type of terrain and got butchered '' on the same year that quintos cicero got besieged in is winter quarters and hold on for a month until help arrived to free them ?

i think the 5th was lead by cicero and survived and the 7th was the one destroyed but my memory is weak but that wasn´t a legion it was just an army of 4800 troops plus 1200 bagage auxilian/suport personal

[John the Mad]

are you talking about the 5th or 7th of cesar that got trapped in belgium and during the retreat got caught in a canyon type of terrain and got butchered '' on the same year that quintos cicero got besieged in is winter quarters and hold on for a month until help arrived to free them ?

i think the 5th was lead by cicero and survived and the 7th was the one destroyed but my memory is weak but that wasn´t a legion it was just an army of 4800 troops plus 1200 bagage auxilian/suport personal

Maybe.

I don't know i'd have to find the book,which is proving frustratingly elusive,it gives a date and a commanders name.

[moonburn]

just saw someone posting it last night in eb2 forum

but what i know ir the romanticized version made by an australian writter who wrote the "the 1st man of rome" and in the 3rd book you get the story of ceasar during the gaulish wars based on his works on the wars on gaul

[Mikhail Mengsk]

sorry- wrong posting