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Updated: May 18, 2025
The red deer are gone, the boar is gone, the wolf necessarily destroyed the red deer can never again drink at the Thames in the dusk of the evening while our civilisation endures. The otter alone remains the wildest, the most thoroughly self-supporting of all living things left a living link going back to the days of Cassivelaunus.
These wretched divisions have always prevented our making an effort to gather; Cassivelaunus and some of the Kentish tribes alone opposed them at their first landing, and he was betrayed and abandoned by the tribes on the north of the Thames. It has been the same thing ever since.
To Boadicea, who hates the Romans far more than she fears them, I shall tell the truth, and shall inform her that when the time comes, as assuredly it some day will, that the Iceni are called upon to defend their liberties against Rome, in Beric she will find a champion of whom I predict that he will be worthy to take his place in our history by the side of Caractacus and Cassivelaunus.
Many villages are passed, and at a bend in the Thames we come to the place where Cæsar with his legions forded the river at Cowey Stakes, defeated Cassivelaunus, and conquered Britain. In his Commentaries Julius Cæsar writes that he led his army to the Thames, which could be crossed on foot at one place only, and there with difficulty.
Here, on the opposite slopes of a shelving valley, are seen on the one hand the town that has clustered around the ancient abbey of St. Albans, and on the other the ruins of the fortification of Verulam, both relics of Roman power and magnificence. On this spot stood the chief town of the Cassii, whose king, Cassivelaunus, vainly opposed the inroads of Cæsar.
After this retreat the auxiliaries departed; nor after that time did the enemy ever engage with us in very large numbers. Cæsar, discovering their design, leads his army into the territories of Cassivelaunus to the river Thames, which river can be forded in one place only, and that with difficulty.
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