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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4599568, member: 14873&quot;]I have always considered the campaign conducted by Constantius, accompanied by his son, Constantine, against the warlike tribes in northern Britain to be the largest and most consequential in Roman British history. My assessment has changed after reading the following book. It is a new book and was for me a fascinating and illuminating read. Dr. Elliott is an eminent British historian and archeologist who possess a captivating (to me) writing style. As I have mentioned previously, I was born and grew up on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border (North Yorkshire on my father’s side of the family and Lancashire on my mother’s side) and so it was inevitable that I became interested in the rich Romano-British history of this region. As a teenager I spent many happy hours hiking the adjacent moors where possibly some Roman soldiers had trod. So I can readily relate to the great descriptions of the weather and climate in northern England so colorfully written by Dr. Elliott - and nothing has changed in the passing years - it is still wet, cold and miserable - and that is during summer! (BTW I now live in Tucson, Arizona!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I found this book to be an absorbing read and a meticulous account of the Septimius Severus campaigns.</p><p><br /></p><p>expeditio felicissima Britannica.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139236[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Published in 2018 by Greenhill Books, Barnsley, S. Yorkshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simon Elliott quote:</p><p><br /></p><p>“My view is that we are looking at a combination of factors, presenting all of those involved with a unique set of circumstances which together led to what followed. The warrior confederations north of the border were getting a taste for vast wealth and looking for an opportunity for easy plunder (and may have been hungry), the northern border for some reason was undermanned, and the emperor was on the prowl for war and mindful of his legacy. Whether triggered by the arrival of Senecio’s letter or provincial news in another form (real or engineered), the scene was therefore set for imperial shock and awe writ large, possibly the most devastating campaign ever fought on British soil.”</p><p><br /></p><p>James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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