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Book Synopsis Mons Graupius AD 83 by : Duncan B Campbell
Download or read book Mons Graupius AD 83 written by Duncan B Campbell and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's Campaign title for the battle at Mons Graupius (83 AD), which was a decisive conflict between Rome and Britain. In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain in an attempt to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans marched and battled across what is now Scotland. Finally, in AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius where 10,000 Caledonians were slaughtered from only 360 Roman dead. It proved the high-water mark of Roman power in Britain. Following unrest elsewhere in the empire, the north of Scotland was abandoned and Rome's forces began their long retreat. Never again would Roman arms stand on the edge of the known world.
Book Synopsis The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius by : Simon Forder
Download or read book The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius written by Simon Forder and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the battle at the edge of the world: did the Romans defeat 50,000 warriors and if so, where?
Download or read book Agricola written by Simon Turney and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of the most famous Roman general since 98AD, exploring his role in the Romanisation of Britain.
Book Synopsis The Roman Army at War by : Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Download or read book The Roman Army at War written by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the army in peacetime, and attempts to understand the army as an institution whose ultimate purpose was to wage war. Adrian Goldsworthy explores the influence of the Roman army's organization on its behaviour during a campaign, emphasizing its great flexibility in comparison to most of its opponents. He considers the factors determining the result of a conflict and proposes, contrary to orthodox opinion, that the Roman army was able to adapt successfully to any type of warfare. Following the technique pioneered by John Keegan in The Face of Battle (1976), Dr Goldsworthy builds up a precise picture of what happened during battle: tactics employed, weaponry, leadership, behaviour of individuals as well as groups of soldiers, and, of utmost importance, morale.
Download or read book The Picts written by Tim Clarkson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British historian explores the mysterious Scottish culture of the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages whose enigmatic symbols adorn standing stones. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Among their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols. The Pictish Stones offer some of the few remaining clues to the powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell the sagas of their kings and heroes. In this book, Medieval historian Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.
Book Synopsis Warlords and Holy Men by : Alfred P. Smyth
Download or read book Warlords and Holy Men written by Alfred P. Smyth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thoroughly unconventional manner.
Book Synopsis The Legacy of Rome by : Lawrence Keppie
Download or read book The Legacy of Rome written by Lawrence Keppie and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an outpost of empire, Scotland played a significant, if unusual, role in the Roman world. The south and east were occupied intermittently from AD 79 to the early third century, while the north and west remained outside Roman control, though certainly not beyond its influence. The conquest was therefore incomplete in Scotland, and military occupation was not followed up by a period of peaceful development; no towns were built, and surviving remains are of camps and forts for the most part. Despite this, the Romans left an important imprint on Scotland. Much documentary evidence sheds light on the native population and archaeological research has led to detailed understanding of the range and distribution of the forts and other sites, and aerial photography has made possible a number of discoveries, filled gaps in our knowledge and opened up new avenues of enquiry. In this revised edition of his highly praised book, originally published as Scotland's Roman Remains, Lawrence Keppie sets out the various stages of Roman occupation in their historical context and shows how literary and archaeological evidence can be used to build up a picture of the Roman period. It incorporates a large amount of new material based on recent discoveries and research, making it one of the best guides to Roman Scotland available.
Download or read book Mons Graupius written by M. G. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moira Fiorelli, an upper-middle class girl in post-war Edinburgh, yearns to become a mountaineer-an awkward choice at a time when there are very few women climbers. Entering this machismo universe, she encounters prejudice, not because she is of Italian descent, not even because she is a woman, but because she is an inveterate snob. On her route to her summits she faces the ups and downs of romance, falling precipitously and disastrously for the most unsuitable man possible.
Book Synopsis The Roman Conquest of Scotland by : James Fraser
Download or read book The Roman Conquest of Scotland written by James Fraser and published by History Press Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 84 AD the Italian gentleman Gnaeus Iulius Agricola, governor of Roman Britain (78-84 AD), led an army of Roman legionary soldiers and barbarian auxiliaries into northern Britain, known as Caledonia to the Romans. At a place called Mons Graupius, Agricola won a decisive victory over a large Caledonian host, and it appeared at the time that, forty-one years on, the Roman military conquest of Britain had finally been completed. Agricola had already begun thinking about a new challenge - the invasion and conquest of Ireland - but was recalled from Britain by the emperor; and it proved to be Rome's failure - or unwillingness - to assume political control over northern Britain in the wake of Agricola's achievement that would become greatly significant in shaping the medieval and post-medieval political and cultural history of Britain and Ireland.
Book Synopsis Mons Graupius Ad 83 by : Duncan B. Campbell
Download or read book Mons Graupius Ad 83 written by Duncan B. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans invaded Britain in AD 43 on the orders of the emperor Claudius, and throughout the remaining ten years of his reign, Roman rule was gradually imposed on the peoples of southern England. By the time Nero came to the throne in AD 54, the province of Britannia extended up to the Severn estuary in the west and the Humber in the east, having absorbed the territories of half a dozen tribes. All this time, the tribes of modern-day Wales remained defiant, but the Brigantes, who occupied a huge area in northern England, had entered into treaty relations with Rome, and no real contact had bee.
Book Synopsis Lady of Avalon by : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Download or read book Lady of Avalon written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of the origins and history of Avalon and the prophecy of the birth of the great King Arthur is revealed through the successive lives of three powerful priestesses--Caillean, Dierna, and Viviane, the Lady of the Lake.
Download or read book The Journal of Roman Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the society, report of the council, lists of members, etc.
Download or read book Caledonication written by John Kv Eunson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you thought you knew everything you needed to about Scotland and its chequered history? Well, think again. Did you know that tobacco made up half of Scotland's exports in the eighteenth century? Did you know that JM Barrie created the name 'Wendy' for his play Peter Pan in 1904, meaning that there are no Wendys over the age of 104...? Did you know that The Beatles played at Dingwall Town Hall in 1963? See? John KV Eunson leads us through the history of the Scots in this accurate but none-too-heavy look at the great country. On a journey of almost breakneck speed full of chuckles, we still have enough time to stop and smell the heather, taste the fudge and feel the ghosties.
Book Synopsis Legions of Rome by : Stephen Dando-Collins
Download or read book Legions of Rome written by Stephen Dando-Collins and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat of historical detective work. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides a detailed account of what the legionaries wore and ate, what camp life was like, what they were paid and how they were motivated and punished. The section also contains numerous personal histories of individual soldiers. Part 2 offers brief unit histories of all the legions that served Rome for 300 years from 30BC. Part 3 is a sweeping chronological survey of the campaigns in which the armies were involved, told from the point of view of particular legions. Lavish, authoritative and beautifully produced, Legions of Rome will appeal to ancient history enthusiasts and military history buffs alike.
Book Synopsis Scottish Highlanders by : Charles MacKinnon
Download or read book Scottish Highlanders written by Charles MacKinnon and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New History of the Picts by : Stuart McHardy
Download or read book A New History of the Picts written by Stuart McHardy and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce and proud warrior society known as the Picts, who despite their lack of discipline and arms, managed to prevent the undefeated Roman Army from conquering the northern part of Britain, just as they later repulsed the Angles and the Vikings.A New History of the Picts is an accessible true history of the Picts, who are so often misunderstood. New historical analysis, recently discovered evidence and an innovative Scottish perspective will expose long held assumptions about the native people.This controversial text contests that Scottish history has long since been dominated and distorted by misleading perspectives. A New History of the Picts discredits the idea that the Picts were a strange historical anomaly and shows them to be the descendants of the original inhabitants of the land, living in a series of loose tribal confederations gradually brought together by external forces to create one of the earliest states in Europe: a people, who after repulsing all invaders, merged with their cousins, the Scots of Argyll, to create modern Scotland. All of Scotland descends from the fierce Picts.
Download or read book Last of the Free written by James Hunter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. Never before has the history of the region been recounted so comprehensively and in so much fascinating, often moving, detail. But this book is not simply the story of humanity's millennia-long involvement with one of the world's most spectacular localities. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland, and Britain, should be organised.
