In 55 BC, Rome had its sights set on Britain. Across two attempts, a huge invasion force led by one of the greatest miltary leaders in history, Julius Caesar, landed in Kent. Eventually he would break through and conquer the southern heart of the island.
It had not been an easy task. In his first attempt to conquer Britain, Caesar took with him only two legions, and achieved little beyond a landing on the coast of Kent. His force was heavily contested as soon as it landed on the beaches near Dover and had only managed to break inland through a combination of grit, determination and advanced military weapons and tactics.
Caesar’s second invasion consisted of 628 ships, five legions and 2,000 cavalry. The force was so imposing that the Britons did not dare contest Caesar’s landing in Kent, waiting instead until he began to move inland. Caesar’s force penetrated into Middlesex and crossing the Thames, forcing the British warlord Cassivellaunus to surrender as a tributary to Rome.
Yet the great Caesar did not stay in Britain long. Instead, he returned to Rome in triumph, utilizing the success of his distant conquest to bolster his eventual dictatorship.
In this series, bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears explores the surviving evidence we have of Caesar’s invasions of Britain over 2000 years ago and then recounts the Claudian invasion of Britain in 43 AD and explores the ensuing Battle of the Medway in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci. Featuring historians Dr Simon Elliot, Dr Steve Willis, Professor Matthias Strohn, and Roman reenactor David Richardson.
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Sounds very much like right now with the invasion of another species
"the island of great britain has been occupied by humans for almost a million years". to be so wrong within 2 minutes- Im out…
When in Rome and thank you the late Julius Ceazar.
Should the programme be called the invasion of Englandshire .
And what about reparations from Denmark, norway and Sweden for the the Vikings invasion.
They only came from Rome now they come from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the middle east.
Occupied for almost a MILLION years, is when I stopped watching. What a shot in the dark, wow! Carbon dating was invested to refute the truth
After ten minutes of watching I see you have no clue of what happened, as you keep on reiterating, and then people watch and believe your story to be true . Not sure why historians make up such rubbish about human part.
1:12 Humans have been in Brittan for a long time. But almost all DNA was replaced since Stonehenge was built. Within 100 years after Stonehenge was built Indo European groups made it to the island. The previous population was 90% replaced. The people who built Stonehenge were most likely dark skin, dark hair with some having blue eyes.
Indo European were know for using horses first. Maybe chariots or something like it. We don't know. Caesar faced chariots in England something that had been gone from warfare since Alexander the Great in Europe or Middle East. It looks like the people in England didn't improve tech for 1000s of years before Caesar came.
They talk like we didn't know which the Romans where , but we used to trade with them before all this happened, and even before thr Romans were there we traded with the phoenicians and cartage