07-28-2009, 05:12 PM
True, true.
For at least one generation the Britons seemed to maintain enough Roman organization and practice to defend themselves.
In A.D. 407, the last legion left to support Constantine III's bid for imperial purple.
In 410, Honrius told the Britons to look to their own defenses.
In 429, St. Germanus, supposedly a fomer military man, is said to have helped stop an attack by combined Pictish and Scottish forces--the so-called Alleluia victory--but a generation later,
In 447, Germanus (may have) returned to Britain and reported local admin and churches much deteriorated . Assumedly military prowess degraded with the other trappings of Roman culture.
By the time Gildas wrote of the Ruination of Britannia (late fifth or early sixth century), things are pretty much flushed down the toilet.
For at least one generation the Britons seemed to maintain enough Roman organization and practice to defend themselves.
In A.D. 407, the last legion left to support Constantine III's bid for imperial purple.
In 410, Honrius told the Britons to look to their own defenses.
In 429, St. Germanus, supposedly a fomer military man, is said to have helped stop an attack by combined Pictish and Scottish forces--the so-called Alleluia victory--but a generation later,
In 447, Germanus (may have) returned to Britain and reported local admin and churches much deteriorated . Assumedly military prowess degraded with the other trappings of Roman culture.
By the time Gildas wrote of the Ruination of Britannia (late fifth or early sixth century), things are pretty much flushed down the toilet.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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