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Audie Award Finalist, History, 2014 The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most famous unit of the early Roman Empire - a pressure that had been destroyed under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost destroyed again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its most significant glory when it deposit the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman getting rid of machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman loss - an success that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the name "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping reserve, second in the author's definitive histories of the legions of early Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion alive, offering military record aficionados a unique soldier's-eye view of these tactics, campaigns, and battles.
