The Roman invasion of Britain / Graham Webster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, Graham, 1915-2001.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--To 449.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.

Great Britain--History, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Graham Webster gives background on Britain before the invasion and goes on to describe the Roman forces, the personalities involved, the actual invasion and Claudius' triumphal entrance into Camulodunum, the British capital.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Preface to the Revised Edition; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The Sources of Evidence; The Celts and Julius Caesar; The Tribes of South-East Britain and their Rulers; The Opposing Forces; The Invasion and Advance to Camulodunum; The Shape of the Roman Province; The Claudian Celebrations and Departure of Plautius; References; Translation of Dio; The number of units in the army of Plautius; Abbreviations; Bibliographical references; Glossary of Latin terms; Glossary of technical terms; Place names in the modern and Roman forms; Index

Notes:

Reprint of the rev. ed. published: London : Batsford, 1993.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9781134601547

1134601549

9781138139121

1138139122

9781134601554

1134601557

9781280109935

1280109939

9780203251355

0203251350

OCLC:

567853681