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 | | Legio XIV Gemina was numbered among the 4 original legions, who saw action during the Claudian invasion of Britain in AD 43, under the overall command of the propraetor Aulus Plautius, and under the personal command of the legate Titus Flavius Sabinianus, brother to Vespasian. |
 | | Legio XIV Gemina, acting in concert with legio XX Valeria from Glevum and several auxiliary cohorts from mid-Wales managed to crush the Boudican revolt of AD 60, by winning a battle near Manduessedum in the Midlands, where 80,000 British tribesmen were killed, warriors mainly of the Iceni and Trinovantes tribes of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. |
 | | Legio XX Valeria Victrix was instrumental in the operation to catch the Brigantian forces of Venutius in a pincer movement at Stanwick in North Yorkshire. |
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