[decimon]

I’ll take a wild guess that this was not the most popular posting for a legionnaire.

[calex59]

From What I've read the most unpopular postings was GB and Israel. Eventually most of the troops in England were natives, hardly any Roman blood at all, except for the officers. I wonder how long it took to travel from Rome up through Europe and across the channel and then up through GB until they reached Hadrian's wall?

Facing the Germans couldn't have been any worse than facing the Celts.

[CT]

9 AD The Battle of the Teutoberger Forrest. Off to the east of this site, maybe 70 KM. A battle in which so many Romans were killed (48-50,000) that Rome gave up attempts to civilize and dominate what later became modern day Germany. Their leader Varus had his head delivered back to Rome. And Caesar cried, ‘Varus, where are my legions!?’