Re: Re; [OT] Women wargamers -longish

At 02:01 14/09/98 +0100, you wrote:
>On 14 Sep 98, at 2:02, Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>
>>  Sounds about right. Once academics used to say that the 9th was
destroyed
>> in the revolt but it turns up in Dalmatia and later Judea during the
Bar
>> Kochba revolt of 131-132AD when it again gets mauled (1500 to 2000
lost if
>> I calculated correctly). The Romans took heavily losses in Britain
but not
>> castastrophic. 
>
>If the 9th had been destroyed wouldn't they have reformed it from 
>scratch again anyway?
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>Richard Slattery	      richard@mgkc.demon.co.uk
>It's got lots of installation. 
>     Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, describing his new coat
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>
>
	Usually the Romans write off the name and number and start
again. Even if
the legion disgraces itself in battle they disband the whole thing and
it
never gets mentioned again.

	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au