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There was not one single most feared Roman legion. The Legio IX Hispana (Spanish Legion) was one of the oldest and most feared units in the Roman army by the early 2nd century AD. It was created in Spain alongside the Sixth, Seventh and Eight Legions in 65 BC. It came under the command of Julius Caesar and was of his most devoted armies. It served throughout the conquest of Gaul (58-51 BC). It played a key role in Caesar's victory at the battle of Pharsalus in Greece which was decisive for Caesar wining his civil war against the forces of the senate (49-45 BC). It participated in the final victory of that war the Battle of Thapsus in Africa. Caesar's reward was to disband it and give its veterans land in Italy.
Augustus recalled this legion and sent it to defeat a rebel, Sextus Pompeius, in Sicily and then it was stationed it in Macedonia. It fought in the Final Civil War of the Roman Republic where Augustus defeated Marc Antony and his lover and ally, Cleopatra VII of Egypt. It was then sent to Spain, where it fought with distinction in a long and hard war against the Cantabrians (25-13 BC) which completed the conquest of Spain. This was probably the campaign that earned the all-conquering Ninth its title "Hispana". After having being stationed in Germania and Pannonia (eastern Austria and western Hungary) it took part on the invasion of Britain in 43 AD. Then ii was stationed at two camps at Longthorpe and Newton-on-Trent.
The Ninth was decimated in 60 BC during Boudicca's rebellion when it tried to relieve the city of Camulodunum in a battle which Tacitus called the Massacre of the Ninth. Its survivors survivors joined the general Suetonius Paulinus, and participated in the final defeat of Boudicca. It was then reinforced with legionaries from Germania and regrouped at Lincoln in 65 AD. Around 71 AD, it built a new fortress at York (Eboracum) and rebuilt it in stone in 108 AD.
Sometime after 108/9 AD, the legion disappeared from the records. This has sparked the myth of the disappearance of the Ninth, which had been subject of the film The Eagle of the Ninth, which is based on the novel by Rosemary Sutcliff. There was a myth that it was destroyed by the Picts of Scotland. However, this seems unlikely.
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