07-23-2006, 04:24 AM
Quote:What evacuation of Britannia are you referring to?
Britain was never evacuated.
Rome never withdrew from Britian. It is merely a tactical setback. Rome will be win in Britian.
Sorry, that was meant to be humor.
Without meaning to speak for others he probably meant the Roman disengament from Britian in the early 5thc. But would a Roman presense in Britian have helped it defend anything else? The Saxons had little to do with the Fall of Rome, I doubt the loss of the native British to Saxons was of great concern to the Romans by the time it happened.
Dacia is a differant story though, it lay right on the route of Gothic invaders. Your idea would probably have been a good one, though one might harbor doubts of a local Dacian king's ablitiy to permanently stop the Goths if all Rome's might could not.
Quote: The Anglos and Saxxons who set up camp a while later did their very best to ethnically cleanse England from what population the romans had left in those provinces. Only Wales today constitutes a remanant of what ancient Britannia looked alike ethnically.
I read an interesting article on BBC a few days ago on that very subject
[url:kv13iun8]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5192634.stm[/url]
David Walker
