Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Pretorian Guard and Pertinax
Pertinax had been hacked to death and decapitated by his own bodyguards. The men of the pretorian guard now held all the cards. In the 200 years since its inception, the praetorian guard had grown frighteningly powerful. This was not a handful of secret service body guards with ear pieces and sun glasses. They were the emperor's personal army.
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