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The Eagle of the Ninth
''The Eagle of the Ninth'' is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. The story is set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, after the building of Hadrian's Wall.
''The Eagle of the Ninth'' is one of Sutcliff's earlier books, but may be her best-known title. It is the first in a sequence of novels, followed by ''The Silver Branch'', ''Frontier Wolf'', ''The Lantern Bearers'' (which won a Carnegie Medal), ''Sword at Sunset'', ''Dawn Wind'', ''Sword Song'', and ''The Shield Ring''. The sequence loosely traces a family, of the Roman Empire and then of Britain, who inherit an emerald seal ring bearing the insignia of a dolphin.
The book has also been published as ''The Eagle''. It has been adapted a few times, most notably as the 2011 film ''The Eagle''.
==Plot summary==
Discharged because of a battle wound, a young Roman officer Marcus Flavius Aquila tries to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in northern Britain. Disguised as a Greek oculist and travelling beyond Hadrian's Wall with his freed ex-slave, Esca, Marcus finds that a demoralised and mutinous Ninth Legion was annihilated by a great rising of the northern tribes. In part, this disgrace was redeemed through a heroic last stand by a small remnant (including Marcus's father) around the legion's eagle standard. Marcus's hope of seeing the lost legion re-established is dashed, but he is able to bring back the bronze eagle so that it can no longer serve as a symbol of Roman defeat – and thus will no longer be a danger to the frontier's security.
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