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Joseph Knight

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The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Das scheint der meiste mögliche Kandidat für die Seite dieses Kampfes zu sein. Natürlich, wenn sie in den Solent landen, könnten sie vielleicht noch einen anderen Fluss überstehen, vielleicht neben Pulbra. Aber lassen wir uns mit der bestätigendsten Narrative, die ist, dass sie auf dem Medway gehalten werden.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Das scheint der meiste mögliche Kandidat für die Seite dieses Kampfes zu sein. Natürlich, wenn sie in den Solent landen, könnten sie vielleicht noch einen anderen Fluss überstehen, vielleicht neben Pulbra. Aber lassen wir uns mit der bestätigendsten Narrative, die ist, dass sie auf dem Medway gehalten werden.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Medway isn't a vast river, but it's a very wide valley, very wide, very shallow valley. So it's got extensive river margins. So we have no idea what state the river was in. But the Romans need to get across. It's heavily guarded on the other side. So the Romans have a ploy of attacking in more than one place. They send across this wonderful unit called the Batavians.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Medway isn't a vast river, but it's a very wide valley, very wide, very shallow valley. So it's got extensive river margins. So we have no idea what state the river was in. But the Romans need to get across. It's heavily guarded on the other side. So the Romans have a ploy of attacking in more than one place. They send across this wonderful unit called the Batavians.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Medway isn't a vast river, but it's a very wide valley, very wide, very shallow valley. So it's got extensive river margins. So we have no idea what state the river was in. But the Romans need to get across. It's heavily guarded on the other side. So the Romans have a ploy of attacking in more than one place. They send across this wonderful unit called the Batavians.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Now, Dio doesn't call them the Batavians. He's writing in Greek and he calls them Keltoi, which are actually Celts. But everybody's happy he's talking about these German auxiliaries, the Batavians from the Rhine Delta. And they're about the closest thing the Romans have to an amphibious unit.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Now, Dio doesn't call them the Batavians. He's writing in Greek and he calls them Keltoi, which are actually Celts. But everybody's happy he's talking about these German auxiliaries, the Batavians from the Rhine Delta. And they're about the closest thing the Romans have to an amphibious unit.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Now, Dio doesn't call them the Batavians. He's writing in Greek and he calls them Keltoi, which are actually Celts. But everybody's happy he's talking about these German auxiliaries, the Batavians from the Rhine Delta. And they're about the closest thing the Romans have to an amphibious unit.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're absolutely famed for being able to cross rivers fully armed, fully armoured, both infantry and cavalry. And if they're doing a combined assault, the cavalry will go across swimming their horses and taking infantrymen with them. So these guys are effectively amphibious troops. These are used as a feint.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're absolutely famed for being able to cross rivers fully armed, fully armoured, both infantry and cavalry. And if they're doing a combined assault, the cavalry will go across swimming their horses and taking infantrymen with them. So these guys are effectively amphibious troops. These are used as a feint.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're absolutely famed for being able to cross rivers fully armed, fully armoured, both infantry and cavalry. And if they're doing a combined assault, the cavalry will go across swimming their horses and taking infantrymen with them. So these guys are effectively amphibious troops. These are used as a feint.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're sent round for a surprise attack and they attack the British cavalry horses and chariot horses. Sie fangen nicht die Männer an, sie fangen die Tiere an, weil wenn du nur die Hügel oder die Scharriere-Ponys hast, dann hast du die Scharriere verlassen, du hast viel von der Kavallerie entfernt und schmerzhafte Pferde machen einen schrecklichen Geräusch.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're sent round for a surprise attack and they attack the British cavalry horses and chariot horses. Sie fangen nicht die Männer an, sie fangen die Tiere an, weil wenn du nur die Hügel oder die Scharriere-Ponys hast, dann hast du die Scharriere verlassen, du hast viel von der Kavallerie entfernt und schmerzhafte Pferde machen einen schrecklichen Geräusch.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

They're sent round for a surprise attack and they attack the British cavalry horses and chariot horses. Sie fangen nicht die Männer an, sie fangen die Tiere an, weil wenn du nur die Hügel oder die Scharriere-Ponys hast, dann hast du die Scharriere verlassen, du hast viel von der Kavallerie entfernt und schmerzhafte Pferde machen einen schrecklichen Geräusch.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Das wird sofort Terror, Aufmerksamkeit, Aufmerksamkeit erzeugen. Die Briten werden zu dem, was da los ist, das ist, wo all unsere Aufmerksamkeit überflutet wird. Und während das passiert, können die Legionäre über den Meer fliegen. Also gibt es diesen gemeinsamen zweifachigen Angriff. It's an absolutely vicious two-day battle. Huge casualties on both sides. There's nothing easy about this.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Das wird sofort Terror, Aufmerksamkeit, Aufmerksamkeit erzeugen. Die Briten werden zu dem, was da los ist, das ist, wo all unsere Aufmerksamkeit überflutet wird. Und während das passiert, können die Legionäre über den Meer fliegen. Also gibt es diesen gemeinsamen zweifachigen Angriff. It's an absolutely vicious two-day battle. Huge casualties on both sides. There's nothing easy about this.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Das wird sofort Terror, Aufmerksamkeit, Aufmerksamkeit erzeugen. Die Briten werden zu dem, was da los ist, das ist, wo all unsere Aufmerksamkeit überflutet wird. Und während das passiert, können die Legionäre über den Meer fliegen. Also gibt es diesen gemeinsamen zweifachigen Angriff. It's an absolutely vicious two-day battle. Huge casualties on both sides. There's nothing easy about this.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Second Legion win great glory in this under their leader Vespasian, who at that time was a legionary legate, but obviously in AD 69 he's the last man standing in the year of the four emperors and will become emperor. His elder brother is also there winning laurels, so it's a great day for the Flavians, this battle.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Second Legion win great glory in this under their leader Vespasian, who at that time was a legionary legate, but obviously in AD 69 he's the last man standing in the year of the four emperors and will become emperor. His elder brother is also there winning laurels, so it's a great day for the Flavians, this battle.

The Ancients
The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Second Legion win great glory in this under their leader Vespasian, who at that time was a legionary legate, but obviously in AD 69 he's the last man standing in the year of the four emperors and will become emperor. His elder brother is also there winning laurels, so it's a great day for the Flavians, this battle.