Cassivelaunus

British  

/ ˌkæsɪvəˈlɔːnəs /

noun

1. 1st century _bc , British chieftain, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, who organized resistance to Caesar's invasion of Britain (54 _bc )

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Cassivelaunus

An account of the fighting by an Eye-Witness with the Headquarters of Cassivelaunus appears on another page.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

Ultimately he decisively defeated Cassivelaunus, the leader, either near London or his capital, Verulamium.

From The Towns of Roman Britain by James Oliver Bevan

Whether the victorious general, in pursuit of Cassivelaunus, crossed the Thames at London, or whether “Coway Stakes,” near Weybridge, mark the scene, will never be known.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper

They know of Boadicea, of Cassivelaunus, the earliest figures in their history, from what a foreign destroyer tells them in an alien tongue.

From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox

Tradition says that the first castle was erected by command of Julius Cæsar, when Cassivelaunus was Governor of Britain, "in order to awe the Britons."

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

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