Agricola in Scotland The Northern Campaigns of Roman Britain’s Great Warrior Governor【電子書籍】[ Simon Elliott ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A gripping account of Agricola’s bloody campaigns in Scotland, revealing how Rome pushed beyond its frontier.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain tasked by the emperor Vespasian with conquering the far north of its main island for the first time. Initially campaigning in Wales and then the north of modern England to secure his rear, he launched his first assault into modern Scotland at the end of the 70s AD. Four more bloody campaigns beyond the Solway Firth-Tyne frontier followed, each time the Romans heading further and further into the heart of darkness, as they would have seen it. Famously, at one stage during the campaigns he also contemplated invading Ireland, only to be told no by the new emperor, Domitian. Ultimately, the primary sources say he defeated the combined armies of the natives in far north at the Battle of Mons Graupius in AD 83. After this, the successful conquest of the whole island was declared, Agricola commanded ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る