In his haste, he did not first establish supply dumps or short, defendable supply lines, and that later told heavily against him. The Romans arrived in force at the foot of Caros’ Camp, made a series of unsuccessful attempts to storm it, then settled in for a siege. They threw up a double palisa...
He’ been badly treated by his fellow Picts, who had nailed him to the door of his own church with the same spikes he claimed came from the holy cross of Christ. The crucifixion had broken one arm and mangled the other, but the bishop was a hard man, a painted, former Pict warrior, and he had shak...
My chief preoccupation was raising a Christian army in Britain to reinforce our regular troops, and Bishop Candless had come to Chester to report his progress. “The numbers are there,” he said, stretching comfortably in his chair. I saw that he now wore beautifully-tooled ...
Dover Axis the dog, leg cocked, was marking a stack of red clay roof tiles stamped with the ‘CLBR” of the Classis Britannica, the quartermaster’s mark for all British Fleet possessions, when Carausius came out of the barracks at Dover. “Good thing I’m the emperor, boy,” he grumbled. “That’s pro...
The wind, I noted, was still in about the right position for what I had in mind, leaving us upwind of the bridge and the front ranks of the enemy. I glanced at the sun, which was low; the late-October dusk was fast approaching, we might just have time… On cue, the first riders trotted in from the...