It was, quite simply, an act of war. Huddled against the biting cold, many of the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the army of the Roman Republic had served under Caesar for much of the previous decade.

each cohort was again split up into centuries of… ANITA: A hundred! A century is a hundred! MUM: Normally yes but a Roman century was 80 men. The officers, who were in charge and gave orders ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...