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Claudius had it handed to him on a plate. You need to read my chapter on Caerleon (and Legion II Augusta) in "Real Newport".

Mind you, I gleaned most of my information on Claudius from a lecture I attended, during which I was sitting behind the speaker so could hear better than I could see. He elaborated on his contention that the "invasion" was based on an actual consensus of would-be client kings and I learned that Claudius had been guided up the English Channel by acrobatic pirates. I wrote a poem (in hendecasyllabics) about that.

I later learned that he had actually said "Atrebatic pilots" but the disappointment was so great that I chose to ignore the new information.
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