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Caesar had been conquering Gaul since 58 BC and in 56 BC he took most of northwest Gaul after defeating the Veneti in the naval Battle of Morbihan.. Caesar's pretext for the invasion was that "in almost all the wars with the Gauls succours had been furnished to our enemy from that country" with fugitives from among the Gallic Belgae fleeing to Belgic settlements in Britain, [10] and the Veneti ...
On 15 March 1783, the Vestal along with British frigates Astraea and Duc de Chartres captured the Massachusetts letter of marque the Julius Caesar. [3] Julius Caesar was a privateer of eighteen 9-pounder guns and carried a crew of 100 men under the command of Captain Thomas Benson, of Salem. Her captors sent Julius Caesar to New York City where ...
Several ships have been named Caesar for Julius Caesar: . Caesar was a British privateer brig that the French frigate Caroline captured on 6 December 1807 and burnt. [1] Caesar was a brig of 217 tons (bm), armed with fourteen 6-pounders and two 18-pounder carronades.
Although Julius Caesar made brief exploratory sea-borne expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC, these were nearly a disaster because many of the boats were wrecked. The invasion fleet under the emperor Claudius in AD 43 was a large one, with 40000 men, and landed at Richborough, Kent.
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Caesar, after the Roman general and dictator Julius Caesar. Caesar was ordered as a 74-gun third rate from Plymouth Dockyard in 1777, but construction was cancelled in 1783. HMS Caesar (1793) was an 80-gun third rate launched in 1793, used as an army depot after 1814, and broken up 1821.
Julius Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both bodies of water when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain. [citation needed]
Julius Caesar employed warships and transport ships in order to carry out his invasion of Britain in 55 BCE. He gathered a fleet consisting of eighty transport ships , sufficient to carry two legions ( Legio VII and Legio X ), and an unknown number of warships under a quaestor , at an unnamed port in the territory of the Morini , almost ...
The Venetic ships were too large and sturdy to ram and so the Romans devised a different plan. [2] The Romans attached hooks to the end of wooden poles on their ships. During the engagement, Roman ships positioned next to the Venetic ships until the hooks would catch the Veneti's halyards that held the yard to the mast. Once the hook caught ...