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ΒΡΕΤΑΝΝΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΝΙΑ
Cassivelaunus, a British chief, who fought against Caesar in his second campaign against Britain, B. C. 54. He ruled over the country north of the river Tamesis (Thames), and as by his perpetual wars with his neighbours he had acquired the reputation of a great warrior, the Britons gave him the supreme command against the Romans. After the Britons and Romans had fought in several engagements, the former abstained from attacking the Romans with their whole forces, which emboldened Caesar to march into the dominions of Cassivelaunus: he crossed the Thames, though its passage had been rendered almost impossible by artificial means, and put the enemy to flight; but he continued to be much harassed by the sallies of the Britons from their forests. The Trinobantes, however, with whom Cassivelaunus had been at war, and some other tribes submitted to the Romans. Through them Caesar became acquainted with the site of the capital of Cassivelaunus, which was not far off, and surrounded by forests and marshes. Caesar forthwith made an attack upon the place and took it. Cassivelaunus escaped, but as one or two attacks which he made on the naval camp of the Romans were unsuccessful, he sued for peace, which was granted to him on condition of his paying a yearly tribute and giving hostages. (Caes. B. G. v. 11-23; Dion Cass. xl. 2, 3; Polyaen. Strat. viii. Caes. 5; Beda, Eccles. Hist. Gent. Angl. i. 2.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Gerontius, a Briton, one of the two generals appointed by the usurper Constantine to command his army, after the death of his first generals, Neviogastes and Justinian. The reputation of Gerontius and his colleague (Edovinchus, a Frank) is attested by the fact that Sarus, whom Stilicho had sent to attack Constantine, and who was besieging the usurper in Vienna (Vienne), in Gaul, prepared for a retreat when he heard of their appointment, and escaped with loss and difficulty into Italy (A. D. 408).
When Constans, son of Constantine, whom his father had sent to subdue Spain, returned, after effecting the subjugation of that country, to his father in Gaul, he left Gerontius to guard the passes of the Pyrenees. Being sent back again, he took Justus with him as his general, and this offended the proud spirit of Gerontius, and induced him to revolt (A. D. 408). His first step was to negotiate with the barbarians (probably the Vandals, Alans, and Suevi), who were ravaging Gaul and Spain, and the troubles he excited appear to have recalled Constantine from Italy, whither he had gone apparently, to assist, but really to dethrone Honorius. After his return, he was attacked by Gerontius. The insurgents had driven Constans out of Spain, where Gerontius had declared his friend (or perhaps his servant) Maximus emperor, and left him at Tarragona; and Constans being taken at Vienna (Vienne), was slain by order of Gerontius, and Constantine himself was besieged by Gerontius in Arles. But the approach of an army sent by Honorius, under his general Constantius, obliged Gerontius to raise the siege, and being abandoned by the greater part of his troops, who went over to Constantius, he fled towards Spain. The troops there, however, looking upon him as quite ruined, conspired to kill him. Attacked by superior numbers, lie defended himself most resolutely, and killed many of his assailants; but finding escape impossible, he put an end to his own life, after first killing, at their own request, his wife, and a faithful Alan friend or servant, who accompanied him. The wife of Gerontius is expressly said by Sozomen to have been a Christian; the silence of the historian leads us to suppose that Gerontius himself was a heathen. His revolt, by preventing Constantine from holding the barbarians in check, led to the assumption of independence in self-defence by the Britons and Armoricans. (Zosim. vi. 1-6; Oros. v. 22; Prosp. Aquit. Chron.; Beda, Hist. Eccl. i. 11; Sozom. H. E. ix. 12, 13; Olympiod. apud Phot. Bibl. cod. 80)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΒΡΕΤΑΝΝΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΝΙΑ
ΛΟΝΔΙΝΟ (Πόλη) ΑΓΓΛΙΑ
1788 - 1824
(Λονδίνο, 1788 - Μεσολόγγι,
1824)
´Aγγλος λυρικός ποιητής και φιλέλληνας. Αποδέχτηκε την πρόταση
του Φιλελληνικού Κομιτάτου του Λονδίνου να γίνει εκπρόσωπός του στην Ελλάδα,
φόρτωσε το μπρίκι «Ηρακλής» με όπλα, τρόφιμα και φαρμακευτικό υλικό και έφτασε
στο Αργοστόλι τον Αύγουστο
του 1823. Παρέμεινε για πέντε μήνες στο χωριό Μεταξάτα και τον Ιανουάριο του 1824
πήγε στο Μεσολόγγι. Εκεί έγινε δεκτός με ενθουσιασμό απ’ όλους τους Έλληνες
και η παρουσία του τροφοδότησε ευεργετικά το φιλελληνικό κίνημα. Επιχείρησε να
οχυρώσει το Μεσολόγγι και
να δημιουργήσει πυρήνα πυροβολικού. Συγκρότησε σώμα Σουλιωτών με το οποίο σχεδίαζε
την κατάληψη της Ναυπάκτου,
η απειθαρχία όμως που εκδηλώθηκε οδήγησε στη ματαίωση της επιχείρησης. Διορίστηκε
συνταγματάρχης πυροβολικού, του απονεμήθηκε η ιδιότητα του Έλληνα πολίτη, οι Μεσολογγίτες
τον ανακήρυξαν πολίτη και ευεργέτη της πόλης τους και το Φιλελληνικό Κομιτάτο
τον εξέλεξε μέλος της επιτροπής για τη διαχείριση του πρώτου δανείου. Τα ποικίλα
καθημερινά προβλήματα του προξενούσαν απογοήτευση που σε συνδυασμό με το άσχημο
κλίμα επιδείνωσαν την ήδη κλονισμένη υγεία του. Στα μέσα Φεβρουαρίου 1824 αρρώστησε
από ελονοσία και πέθανε στις 19 Απριλίου.
Το κείμενο παρατίθεται τον Μάιο 2003 από την ακόλουθη ιστοσελίδα της Βουλής των Ελλήνων
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