6: The Catastrophic Fall Of Roman Britain
The Fall of Rome Podcast
The Battle of the Saxons
Like most of these other rich aristocrats, you had a job in the Roman bureaucracy. The baths at your country villa break, and nobody knows how to fix them. There are only a few soldiers left manning the forts along the coast that are supposed to prevent this kind of thing. You get yourself a horse and armor and a sword, and you try to organize some of your dependent peasants into a militia. And you use that surplus to arm them.
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