- This article is about the conquest begun in AD 43. For other Roman invasions of Britain, see Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain and Carausian revolt.
- After the invasion, the Roman army slowly and gradually expanded its foothold over a large territory, including modern-day Wales, Scotland, and England.
- Britain was regarded with some mystical awe by the Romans, and at first Claudius' troops, 40,000 of them, refused to disembark from the invasion boats.
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- The Roman Invasions of Britain. Arrival and Conquest. The Romans invaded Britain a number of times starting with Julius Caesar’s first landing in Kent in 55BC.
- The Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius is a seminal event that forever altered the trajectory of British history.
- Within four years of the invasion, most of the country between the estuary of the River Severn and the Humber was under Roman control.
- As a pretext for invasion, Claudius may have used the expulsion from Britain of the pro-Roman king, Verica of the Atrebates, by the Catuvellauni.
- In 43 A.D. Emperor Claudius launched a third and final invasion of Britain. Four Roman legions, led by General Aulus Plautius, landed in three locations on the...
- The Roman invasion of Britain was a determined military and political effort to project Roman power in the Northeastern Atlantic.