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Britannia and was
His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate ; while there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britannia, none of them are considered serious.
Some traditions hold that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas.
The most far-reaching conquest was the conquest of Britannia.
Already, while alive, he received the widespread private worship of a living Princeps and was worshipped in Britannia in his own temple in Camulodunum.
Constantine was eventually trapped at Aquileia, where he died, leaving Constans to inherit all of his brother ’ s former territories – Hispania, Britannia and Gaul.
The conquest of Britannia was fully realized by his successors.
There seemed to be a northern campaign to Britannia that was aborted.
During his two years at Britannia, moored at Dartmouth, Devon, he was given twenty-five times for " minor offences " and beaten three times for more serious infractions.
Beatty's letters home made no complaint about the poor living conditions in Britannia, and generally he was extrovert, even aggressive, and resented discipline.
The situation in Britannia was even more problematic.
The province of Britannia had taken shape, and England was in it.
Roman Britain, referred to by the Romans as Britannia, was the part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire from 43 until c. 410.
Around the year 197, Rome divided Britannia into two provinces, Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior ; sometime after 305, Britannia was further divided, and made into an imperial diocese.
For much of the later period of the Roman occupation, Britannia was subject to barbarian invasions and often came under the control of imperial usurpers and pretenders to the Roman Emperorship.
The future emperor Pertinax was sent to Britannia to quell the mutiny and was initially successful in regaining control.
The latter was the new governor of Britannia, and had seemingly won the natives over after their earlier rebellions ; he also controlled three legions, making him a potentially significant claimant.
Once Niger was neutralised however, Severus turned on his ally in Britannia — though it is likely that Albinus saw he would be the next target and was already preparing for war.
Britannia was part of this until 274 when Aurelian reunited the empire.
He was quickly crushed by Probus, but soon afterwards an unnamed governor in Britannia also attempted an uprising.
The last of the string of rebellions to affect Britannia was that of Carausius and his successor Allectus.

Britannia and wooden
During the evening of 23 May 1970 the bridge was greatly damaged when boys playing inside the bridge dropped a burning torch, setting alight the tar-coated wooden roof of the tubes ( see Britannia Bridge Official Fire Report, BBC News video ).
The station was actually closed for four years between 1966 and 1970 but was re-opened ( with a single wooden platform ) due to the fire on the Britannia Bridge and became for a short while the terminus for trains from Holyhead.

Britannia and man
It depicts a man who is about 50 years old, possibly a family member, or possibly the Emperor Pertinax when he was governor of the province of Britannia.
* Atilius Rufus, a man of consular rank, was governor of Syria during the reign of Domitian, and died just before the return of Agricola from Britannia, in AD 84.
Eighteen months after the destruction of the eponymous Black Gate at the conclusion of Ultima VII: The Black Gate ( and six months after the Guardian attempted to trap the Avatar and the whole of Castle Britannia in a blackrock sphere on the anniversary of that event in Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds ) it is discovered that the Guardian ordered his right-hand man Batlin to follow Iolo's wife Gwenno, who went to explore Serpent Isle.
During the record attempt Donaldson became the first man to break the 1, 000 km / h barrier, winning the Britannia Trophy and a Bar to his AFC.
The woods near Downend were the site of an air crash on 6 November 1957, when a prototype Bristol Britannia aircraft crashed killing the 15 man crew.
Anthony is directly descended from the great engineer Robert Napier, he of the Napier-Railton cars and the man to whom Samuel Cunard turned, to install engines into his first ships such as the Britannia Class Steamships.

Britannia and war
* The emperor Claudius returns from his British campaign in triumph, the southeast part of Britannia now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.
Meanwhile war had resumed in Britannia, where Gnaeus Julius Agricola pushed further into Caledonia and managed to establish several forts there.
Like Columbia, Britannia became a very potent and more common figure in times of war, and represented British liberties and democracy.
The uncertain Britannia ( right ) and Marianne ( left ) look to the determined Mother Russia ( centre ) to lead them in the coming war.
The Suffragette appeared again on 16 April 1915 as a war paper and on 15 October changed its name to Britannia.
In the 1960s, war plans apparently envisaged evacuating the Sovereign to the Royal Yacht Britannia.
It changed the name of its paper from " Votes For Women " to " Britannia ": a paper which concentrated on enlisting women for the war effort.
The statue may represent the goddess Victoria ; in Germany, the female embodiment of the nation, Germania ; in the United States either female embodiment of the nation Liberty or Columbia ; in the United Kingdom, the female embodiment Britannia ; an eagle ; or a war hero.
Several highly detailed sculptures adorn the outside of the building, including ones of Britannia and Neptune, as well as others representing peace, war, and storms.
Britannia Superior was one of the provinces of Roman Britain created around 197 AD by Emperor Septimius Severus immediately after winning a civil war against Clodius Albinus, a war fought to determine who would be the next emperor.
Albinus was the governor of Britannia during that civil war.
Following the war with the Dutch, Charles had a commemorative medal cast, in which her face was used as a model for Britannia ; this subsequently became customary for medals, coins and statues.
Survives the war, and takes the coffin of his partner in cowardice Lord Flintlock back to Britannia.

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