The Roman Invasion of Britain 43AD | Special Forces & Elephants 

Haha, cheers Arthur!

Not really

dashing, even relative to our brave host's usual natural charm

Well it’s one uniform that doesn’t need to be Ironed, because it already is.

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Glad you enjoy it Kyle, thanks!

Yes, I love to visit some of the old Roman sites left behind.

Thanks! This is an interesting one if you haven’t already seen it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ngXsjXopRKY.htmlsi=y2iomLTFPn99gTbK.

😂......just so practical if you think about it

Cheers 👍

Thanks, will do!

not that the heavy infantry did not their part of the slaughter after braking the enemy cavalry did also take part in the skirmishing opening a battle and during battle fighting on the flanks, l Hannibal used his numedians to guard on e of his flanks against the socii cav, till his celtic and iberian horse smashed first the roman cav and then socii cav . Then the numedians kept these cavalry running during the later part of the battle

Thanks very much & welcome 👍🏻

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The alternative theory 👍🏻

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Absolutely, but do try Simon Scarrow's Roman series 'Under the Eagle' they're in the same vein 👍🏻

Another book I can recommend, having just read it, is Alex Gough's "Emperor's Sword". Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Well said 👍🏻

WHAT? THE Roman occupation only lasted a mere 357 years...LAFFVS OUT LOUDVS.

@@redwingrob1036 - the Romans knew that the Brittania occupation did not turn a profit but pride goeth before a fall...thus endeth a proud man and a proud civilisation

@@MyMy-tv7fd MMM... I'LL get back to you on that 1, after I check what Patrick Wyman, on his Spotify podcast, said concerning this aspect. He did a Ph D specialising in the decline & fall of Roman & covered Roman Britain thoroughly. I just can't remember what he said, even though I listened to the entire series only last year.🙄 THE most informative, up to date, riveting & inspiring talks on Ancient to early Dark Ages history, since my Ancient History & Latin teacher George Hubbock RIP DIS MANIBVS, at school 42 years ago!!!

@@redwingrob1036 - please do - I await your clarification/reply as I cannot find my references on the economic costs of the occupation

😂 a fair comment Rich 👍🏻

I too am deathly scared of being invited to eat dinner with muslims. If you wish to talk of invaders you can start with your monarchy.

Haha thanks, 👍🏻

😜 cheers buddy, glad you liked it 👍🏻

WOW!! That really is an amazing thing to have experienced, just fantastic. 👍🏻

It really is one if the best things ever written, it's translated and read really well as an audio book ,search up 'Julius Caesar- the Gallic War Commentaries'

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Composite bows would not have been very suitable for a wet climate like Britain.

Wow, thanks Paul, glad you liked it 👍🏻

I wish I had a teacher like Kevin at school. I have always loved history, but my history teacher was the dullest man Imaginable !

It is indeed 👍🏻

There's an incredible Scottish documentary telling the story of a number of roman invasions of Scotland getting deep into Scotland territory with the intent of reaching the northern coast and completing the conquest of the island

Also consider that they knew that the narrowest part of the island was the place to build Hadrian's Wall so they must have surveyed and mapped the land there. They then identified that the area between the Firth of Clyde and Forth was where to build the Antonine Wall.

Cheers Magnus 👍🏻

Thanks for listening 👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it Albert, thanks!

that infection is uncureable It may sleep for sometime

Thanks so much, I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos 👍

So I understand, yes.

@@thehistorysquad it would make sense then for them to be very good at river crossings given the wetlands of Holland

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Thank you kindly!

Will do 😜

Cheers Mike, Julie very much appreciates that and says she's not too bad a printing out shields either 😉

Glad you enjoyed it David 👍🏻

Thanks Paul! Will do!

..to this day!!!

Cheers Scrappy, you should have seen it before I moved to Canada - I even had a model of an Egyptian pyramid 😜

@@thehistorysquad in what province? Love from Quebec!

Which

@@themuffinlord6442 Frigid Saskatchewan 😜

@@thehistorysquad I’m addicted to your passion real good content

Thanks!

Please do 😜. Glad you liked the vid, it was my first foray into the Romans on this channel 👍🏻

An interesting thought 👍🏻

That number sounded high to me too. Just the logistics of feeding and supplying that many warriors seems impractical, unless their society was far more sophisticated than we imagine.

Because when the enemy crowded in to try to demolish the doors, boiling hot water, boiling sand, liquid fire etc; all poured down to literally murder the attackers below.

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Haha, thanks very much 👍🏻

I think someone did a reenactment of his speech, video is somewhere on RU-vid.

I was actually on the very first one as a WW1 re-enactor 👍🏻

A great book on that subject is 'UnRoman Britain' you may already have ready it 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad I believe that book went into detail on the tribal divisions and postulates its why the Angles were so successful later on.

Yes, here's a mosaic that shows just that.... fascinating www.worldhistory.org/image/3925/roman-mosaic-showing-the-transport-of-an-elephant/

Knowing nothing about the ships of the time, would not the elephants make a boat top heavy?🤔 I am have do some research on what breed of elephants they used. African elephants seem to be to large.🤔

Wow, thanks Kevin, I really appreciate that.

They sailed from Bolougne, you'll be able to see it on one of the maps 👍🏻

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I'll give it some thought Phill, a good topic for sure.

My pleasure!

I'm not sure about that, maybe someone else could step in here?

That's so right, I agree 👍🏻

You are welcome!

You're very welcome!

Haha, thanks! Sometimes you have to get creative 👍🏻

👍🏻 Cheers and thanks for watching

It's a great question Sandra, one of the things I believe is that many of the Romano-British did indeed stay in their stone houses, but as for the rest of the Celts, they had never had them, they were still in their villages and huts just the same as when the Romans arrived. It would seem as though the Celts/Britons just got on with life during the occupation and simply carried on after the Romans left. It was after the Romans left that the Saxons invaded.

😜 Enjoy!!