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3 – The Island at the Edge of the World – Part 1

The British History Podcast

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Comius and the Angry Natives

Dover was a non starter. And caesar had to find somewhere else. So he met with his officers and he planned his next move while he waited for the slower moving transports to arrive. The closer they got to the britons, the more it became clear that they were armed,. not just in bronze, but also in iron. These weren't stone aged savages, nor were they cowardly. Despite seeing the fleet of 80 ships and the ten thousand hardened diers that they carried, these britons didn't seem frightened at all. In fact, they looked excited. This expedition was going from bad to worse; I would need my men to disembark on the beaches as rapidly

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