Book 1, Chapter 3, 55 BC to 78 AD – Julius Caesar – Continued
Being wishful to return to Gaul before the severe weather set in, and having repaired a sufficient number of transports, he granted the request, only exacting a double number of hostages to be sent after him. This promise not being kept, afforded a pretext for the greater invasion of the following year, which Caesar had resolved upon, and to prepare for which he ordered a number of ships to be got ready during the winter, of a build more adapted for a descent upon the coast. Mean while this brief campaign, though really inglorious and unsuccessful, was commemorated at Rome as the forerunner of splendid victories, and was magnified into the conquest of a new world, and a thanks giving of twenty days was decreed by the senate to the immortal gods.
Chapter 3, Julius Caesar
Resolves on Crossing from Gaul to Britain
The Return to Gaul
Divisions Among the British Tribes
Chapter 3, Caractacus
Proprietorships of Aulus and Ostorins
Capture of Londinium and of Verulamium
Chapter 3, The Romans Revenge
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