Legio XX Valeria Victrix

Around AD 55 under The command of Manlius Valens it moved to Usk, in an unsuccessful attempt to pacify the Silures, a tribe very resistant to the imposition of Roman rule in Wales.

But the legion suffered defeat, resulting in Valens’ replacement as legate[4] In AD 60 or 61 the Twentieth helped put down the revolt of queen Boudica, after outflanking the Ordovices it took part in the second Roman invasion of Anglesey which destroyed the Celtic Druids and their religious practices.

No further information is known after this period and scholars believe Legio XX was still stationed in Britain when Constantine III pulled the bulk of the military forces from there in the year 407 for his doomed campaign on the continent.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix and their final days in Deva (Chester) in the early AD 400s form the backdrop to the Tom Stevens mythic fiction genre novel The Cauldron (special edition)[23] with the story's protagonist Valerian—the Praefectus and Chief Centurion—defending the city with the rump of the legion against the incursions of Hibernian pirates as the "Dark Ages" settle on Britannia.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix was the legion featured in the novel Eagle in the Snow; author Wallace Breem postulates that they were annihilated by the Germanic invasion of 406.

Several of the main characters in the early novels of Jack Whyte's A Dream of Eagles series were former members of Legio XX Valeria Victrix.

Legion Company of the U.S. Army's 1st battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed in Vicenza, Italy is named after Legio XX.

Map of the Roman empire in AD 125, under emperor Hadrian , showing the Legio XX Valeria Victrix, stationed at Deva Victrix ( Chester , England ), in the province of Britannia . They were stationed there from AD 88 until at least the late 3rd century.
Moulded antefix roof tile showing the badge and standard of Legion XX, from Holt, Clwyd, Wales
RIB 2199. Distance Slab of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix [ 9 ] George MacDonald calls in no. 13 in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland . [ 10 ] It was found near Cleddans , close to Duntocher . It may have been a "waster" and lacks distance data. It has been scanned and a video produced. [ 11 ]
Legio XX built Deva Victrix (now Chester ), a Roman castrum shown in the figure. The Legio was stationed in Roman Britain until the beginning of the fifth century