Agricola in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of Roman Britain's Great Warrior Governor

A gripping account of Agricola’s bloody campaigns in Scotland, revealing how Rome pushed beyond its frontier.

Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain tasked by the emperor Vespasian with conquering the far north of its main island for the first time. Initially campaigning in Wales and then the north of modern England to secure his rear, he launched his first assault into modern Scotland at the end of the 70s AD. Four more bloody campaigns beyond the Solway Firth—Tyne front...