"What Happened When an Enemy Broke Into a Roman Camp?"

A grounded look at what actually happened when enemy forces breached the defenses of a Roman military camp, drawing on Caesar's own accounts of the near-disaster at the Sabis and the siege of Quintus Cicero's winter camp in Gaul, Tacitus's record of the Teutoburg Forest catastrophe and the siege of Vetera during the Batavian revolt, and archaeological evidence from Kalkriese, Xanten, Inchtuthil, and Vindolanda. Explores camp construction, discipline, sentries, medicine, and the ordinary people-soldiers, servants, traders, and families-caught inside when the walls failed. #AncientHistory #RomanHistory #AncientRome