Roman Britain's Pirate King: Carausius, Constantius Chlorus and the Fourth Roman Invasion of Britain

A "fascinating and engaging" study of the naval commander who defied an emperor and ruled in Britain and northern Gaul for a decade (Midwest Book Review).
In the middle of the third century AD, Roman Britain's regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were overrun by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coasts of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta. The western augustus (senior emperor...