The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (TRIH ep 502, part 4)

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This episode concludes a short Rest Is History series on the making of Roman Britain. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Tacitus's portrait of Gnaeus Julius Agricola and the campaign to subdue Caledonia, focusing on Agricola's military advance, naval expeditions, and the contested account of the climactic battle commonly called Mons Graupius (c. AD 83).

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