Agricola in Scotland : the northern campaigns of Roman Britain's great warrior governor
Elliott, Simon, 1965-2025
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Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain tasked by the emperor Vespasian with conquering the far north of its main island for the first time. Initially campaigning in Wales and then the north of modern England to secure his rear, he launched his first assault into modern Scotland at the end of the 70s AD. Four more bloody campaigns beyond the Solway Firth-Tyne frontier followed, each time the Romans heading further and further into the heart of darkness, as they would have seen it. Famously, at one stage during the campaigns he also contemplated invading Ireland, only to be told no by the new emperor, Domitian. In this book on Agricola's campaigns in Scotland new archaeological evidence will be used to show how Agricola was able to campaign so far north of the imperial frontier and in such numbers (with over 30,000 men, plus the fleet), and the exact routes he followed.
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Author:
Elliott, Simon, 1965-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399068284 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.101
LC class:
DA777.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
4210368
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