PREVIEW: Epochs #186 | Pompey & Caesar: Part XI
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of epochs where I shall be continuing my narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and specifically the bit where Julius Caesar is in Gaul, which I'm doing in lots and lots of detail which people seems like and I enjoy doing it. |
| 0:13.0 | As you'll notice, for technical and scheduling reasons, we're not in the second studio, in the first studio, but we've got this old background that we put together and then |
| 0:21.0 | never used at one point. It serves us very well today, doesn't it? Okay, so straight into the |
| 0:25.4 | narrative, if you remember last time picked up, or left off rather, where Julius Caesar was just |
| 0:30.2 | about to invade Britain for the second time in the year 54 BC. So Caesar picks up his own story |
| 0:37.2 | by saying this, quote, |
| 0:38.3 | Caesar then set sail leaving Labinius on the continent with three legions and 2,000 cavalry, |
| 0:43.3 | with orders to guard the ports, provided for a supply of corn, watch events in Gaul, |
| 0:48.3 | and act as circumstances from time to time might require. |
| 0:52.3 | Caesar took with him five legions and the remaining 2,000 cavalry. |
| 0:56.0 | Five legions and 2,000 cavalry. |
| 0:58.0 | That's quite a lot. |
| 0:59.0 | He wasn't taking easy this time. |
| 1:01.0 | And putting out about sunset was at first carried on his way by a light southwesterly breeze. |
| 1:07.0 | But about midnight the wind dropped, with the result that he was driven far out of his course by the tidal current and at daybreak saw Britain left behind on the port side. |
| 1:16.6 | When the set of the current changed he went with it and rode hard to make the part of the island where he had found the best landing places the year before. |
| 1:24.6 | The soldiers worked splendidly and by a continuous rowing |
| 1:28.3 | enabled a heavily laden transports to keep up with the warships. When the whole fleet reached |
| 1:32.8 | Britain about midday no enemy was to be seen. Caesar discovered afterwards from prisoners |
| 1:38.1 | that although large numbers had assembled at the spot, they were frightened by the sight |
| 1:43.0 | of so many ships and had quitted |
| 1:45.1 | the shore to conceal themselves on higher ground. Including those retained from the previous year |
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