The Seventh Legion

Caesar led a night march which included almost his entire force, leaving only ten cohorts and 300 cavalry to defend the camp. He sought out any british resistance but they had already fled from the battlefield. The seventh legion utilized a formation that in pop culture has sometimes been referred to as a roman phalanx,. But it was actually called the testudo formation, or the tortoise formation. They were roughly imitating the formation's namesake. And while their advance was slow, it was also largely immune to the hail of arrows and stones that the british were hurling in their direction. Once again, the remaining britons fled.