The Roman came in the 1st century BC. England and Wales were part of the Roman Empire until the AD 400s.
In 55 BC, as a sidebar campaigns to his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar crossed the channel. Sailing with two legions, he landed at Dover on August 26 and moved on to Kent. Fierce battles ensued with the local inhabitants.
The victory was delayed because of further uprisings and a storm that wrecked many of the Roman transports. The following years in July the Romans began a second invasion. This time 600 transports five legions and around 2000 Gallic horseman arrived in Kent to discover no unified opposition from the local tribes. He managed to set up a client king from the Trinovantes.
The attempt, to which Caesar left unfinished, was renewed by Claudius and his success was greater. Agricola, the general of Domitian, finished what Claudius had begun. He extended his conquest to the northern part of the island; his fleet circumnavigated the whole.
The Romans again launched a full-scale invasion of Britain in AD 43, moving westward across the country. Twenty of the southwest hill forts fell quickly to the II Augusta Legion, came from Strasbourg under the general Titus Flavius Vespasianus. They subsequently conquering much of Britain, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Empire as Britannia province.
The Britain Empire expanded to the British Isles and maintained order through its legions. Despite its distance from the center, Britain had been a flourishing part of the Roman Empire until well into the fourth century.
With the collapse of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes, known as Anglo-Saxons, invaded England.
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