6: The Catastrophic Fall Of Roman Britain
The Fall of Rome Podcast
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Patrick Weimann: In 446, the inhabitants of Britain were beset on all sides by marauding barbarians. He says they sent a pleading letter to the Roman general Iatius. Within a generation, most of what remained of Roman Britain was lost and gone forever. The island fragmented politically into a patchwork of new kingdoms ruled by petty tyrants,. Some regions barely experienced anything we would call a disruption until the year 500 or even later.
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