XVIII (XIIX)   Update 2016-11-24    
Sources          
1 Real-Encyclopädie article Legio by Ritterling p.1767-1768      
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History from 58 BC to 284 AD        
Date Action Legionary HQ Modern name Province Comment
49 BC raised by Caesar in Italy        
49 commanded by Scribonius Curio and destroyed in Africa        
30s reformed by Octavian        
c.30 stationed in Aquitania        
by c.15 stationed on the lower Rhine Vetera Xanten Germania Inferior  
13-9 Drusus' German campaigns        
8 Tiberius' campaigns        
4-5 AD Tiberius' campaigns        
9 destroyed in the Teutoburg forest       eagle recovered by Germanicus or in 42