Caesar's Salad

       Julius Caesar came 55 B.C., he looked again 54 B.C., and Claudius came to conquer 43 A.D. It must have been one of those Roman things. All this invasion stuff was a very complicated endeavor transporting four Roman legions with all their contraptions some 20 miles across the water from Gaul (France) to Britain. Can you imagine the task? Claudius had his own problems when the Legions refused to go to this end of the world. This was thought literally "the end of the world", since most of these folks regarded Britian as geographically the last place on earth before the great beyond.  John Peddie in his book Invasion, The Roman Conquest of Britain, published 1987, gives an insightful discussion of this process I would call Caesar's salad. The cover designed by Martin Latham is shown below.

     The first landing in 43 A.D. began in the southeast, and then to the settlement of London. From here things headed north to Lincoln 48 B.C., then southwest to Dorchester area, and then to my Celtic ancestor's part of their end of this world. The assault on Anglesey was 61 A.D. All things were viewed by Julius Agricola as being conquered by 84 A.D. Just think, native farms, to Villas, and to a new existence as an urban society. What a deal, or not. What was to become of being mixed up in this Caesar's salad?