"Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals".

Thus the Roman historian Marcellinus recorded the battle of Adrianople, which spelled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.

The twilight of the Roman Empire saw a revolution in the way war was waged.
The drilled infantryman, who had been the mainstay of Mediterranean armies since the days of the Greek hoplite, was gradually replaced by the mounted warrior.

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Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France).

Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eye-witness account of a campaign from antiquity.

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The year AD 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43.

This engaging work from author Michael Simkins explores in depth the organisation, equipment, weapons and armour of the Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine, one of the most exciting periods in Roman history.

Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced.

Together they had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman dominion.

In 49 BC they turned against each other and plunged Rome into civil war.