Abridged from the Wiki
"
Legio IX Hispana ("9th
Spanish Legion"),[1] also written
Legio VIIII Hispana,[2] was a legion of the Imperial
Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least 120 AD. The legion fought in various provinces of the late
Roman Republic and early
Roman Empire. It was stationed in
Britain following the
Roman invasion in 43 AD. The legion disappears from surviving
Roman records after c. 120 AD and there is no extant account of what happened to it.
One theory was that the legion was wiped out in action in northern
Britain soon after 108 AD. This theory fell out of favor among modern scholars as successive inscriptions of IX Hispana were found in the site of the
legionary base at Nijmegen (Netherlands), suggesting the Ninth may have been based there from c. 120 AD.
In any event, it is clear that the IX Hispana did not exist during the reign of the emperor
Septimius Severus (r. 193–211 AD), as it is not included in two identical but independent lists of the 33 legions existing in this period."
Is there any real research that I could read on the IX? Anyone recommend a really
good historical
work?