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To: wildbill

:’) One of the forts could easily be from Vespasian’s campaign in Britain, although having said that it occurs to me that I’m not sure how far west he went. He’s definitely the general who made the big move in the conquest of most of Britain, reducing the oppida with artillery (not gunpowder obviously, so nobody reading this write in, okay?) which was his main specialty. If there had been an orderly system of succession (and retirement from the supreme office by means other than death) it’s basically assumed IMO that the Romans would have finished up in Caledonia, and they apparently had a forward base in Ireland (there’s a topic in the FRchives about that). Thanks wildbill!


6 posted on 08/03/2010 7:45:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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http://www.dot-domesday.me.uk/invade.htm
http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/vespasian.html


8 posted on 08/03/2010 8:03:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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