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River Stour (54 BC)Scenario#: 218 Date: 54-BC Location: Kent, EnglandIn 54 BC, Caesar launched a second invasion of Britain which was better planned and far more formidable than the first one. The invasion force consisted of five legions, auxiliaries, and 2000 cavalry, transported on 800 vessels. The Britons, awed … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Foraging Party (54 BC)Scenario#: 219 Date: 54-BC Location: Wheathampstead, EnglandWhen Caesar resumed his march inland, the Britons united under their newly appointed leader, Cassivellaunus. He ordered his troops to avoid pitched battles with the legions. Instead, they were to just harry the flanks of the legions and to attrit … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Invasion of Britain (55 BC)Scenario#: 217 Date: 55-BC Location: Pegwell Bay, EnglandWith most of Gaul under his control, Caesar saw a need to pacify the nearby British coast, lest this island serve as a sanctuary and base for anti-Roman Gauls. Caesar sailed to Britain late in the campaign season with only … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Medway (43 AD)Scenario#: 407 Date: 43-AD Location: Kent, EnglandIn 43 AD, Aulus Plautius led an expedition of four legions to Britain. His army advanced with only minor skirmishing as far as Rutupiae on the coast of Kent. Late in the season, Roman scouts finally found the enemy camped … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Cefn Carnedd (51 AD)Scenario#: 223 Date: 51-AD Location: Powys, WalesThe Roman conquest of Britain had been underway for four years when a new Roman commander, Publius Ostorius Scapula, was assigned to the province in 47 AD. He faced an on-going insurgency, led by Caratacus, chieftain of the Cautuvellauni tribe. … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians |
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Mona Insulis (60 AD)Scenario#: C3i17 Date: 60-AD Location: Monastir, WalesThe island of Anglesey (Ynys Mon to the Welsh and Mona Insulis to the Romans), rich in grain and copper mines, became a refuge for several tribes opposed to the Roman occupation of Britain. The druids there gave moral and … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #24 |
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Camulodunum (60 AD)Scenario#: C3i18 Date: 60-AD Location: Camulodunum, EnglandQueen Boudica led her army of rebels, predominantly Iceni and Trinovantes, to Camulodunum, once the Trinovante capital and now the Roman capital after the Roman invasion of Britain. The city had been designated a colony for unruly veterans of the … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #24 |
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Boudica's Revolt (61 AD)Scenario#: 408 Date: 61-AD Location: Wroxeter, EnglandWhile many of the tribes of Britain resisted Rome until they were conquered and crushed, a few tribes, like the Iceni, formed pacts with the Romans to remain semi-independent. The Iceni client-king Prasutagus died while the Roman governor, Gaius… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |
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Mons Graupius (84 AD)Scenario#: 410 Date: 84-AD Location: Mons Graupius, ScotlandAfter years of campaigns in northern Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola subdued all the tribes except the fierce Caledonians. Agricola maneuvered to bring the Caledonians to open battle. Determined to restore the security of his Highland home, the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #4: Imperial Rome |