Roman invasion of Britain

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Roman conquest of Britain.




By the 40s AD, the political situation in Britain was apparently in some chaos. [3] Caligula planned a campaign against the Britons in 40, but it never happened.[4] Caligula's preparations made Claudius' invasion possible three years later. For example, Caligula built a lighthouse at Bononia (modern Boulogne-sur-Mer) that provided a model for the one built soon after at Dover.

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  1. Dio Cassius, Roman History 49.38, 53.22, 53.25
  2. Strabo, Geography 4.5
  3. John Creighton 2000. Coins and power in late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press
  4. Suetonius, Caligula 44-46; Dio Cassius, Roman History 59.25