The Origins of London
The Ancients
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Is There a War in London?
London has beeng targeted in a revolt in the hadrianic period, and there are hints of that revolt in all sorts of other things that go on. We've got some coin issues which celebrate a victory. There's no reason why forces who had attacked hayden's war could not have come down into the southward province and targeted london. I draw a parallel with the jacobite rebellion the eighteenth century, where the bonny prince charley's forces only reached derbybut were heading for london. They turned back because they lacked the strength of their convictions, or whatever. But there is one little clue that i find fascinating, and it has sit here with a
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