Why the world should be a very different place.
We should all be speaking Latin.
Julius Caesar’s first British invasion force in 54BC was the same size as William the Conqueror’s in 1066 – around 10,000 men. It stayed in Britain for few weeks. The second one in 55BC was two and a half times the size, but it returned to France after a few months. No Roman legionary set foot in Britain after that for a hundred years.
The accepted historical take of Caesar’s invasions is that the Romans won every battle and returned across the Channel victorious, twice. This version comes entirely from Caesar’s own diary and is clearly bollocks. He didn’t come to Britain with 25,000 soldiers for a summer holiday and he didn’t leave because he was winning too much. He intended to conquer. He should have been able to. His army was awesome and had overthrown all of France in two years . Something big happened to stop him. Read More
