11-14-2012, 07:16 PM
Quote:As for defeating legions - first Tapae was quite probably an ambush of some sort. The Sarmatians and/or Suebi wiped out XXI Rapax only a few years later. The Batavians neutralised several legions in 69, and the Jews under Bar Kochba appear to have destroyed at least one more.
The jews are thought to have destroyed Deiotariana. Later, in 161, the Parthians trapped and destroyed a legion--IX Hispana IIRC, in Armenia.