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The famous conqueror from the European continent arrived ashore with thousands of men, ready to set up a new kingdom in England. The Britons got resisted the amphibious invasion as soon as his forces arrived, but he was able to push onward. In a sizable winter battle, the Britons' large army attacked the invaders but was eventually routed, and the conqueror was able to set up a new kingdom. Over 1,a century before William the Conqueror became the king of England after the Fight of Hastings, Julius Caesar arrived, observed, and conquered part of "Britannia", establishing a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BC. Inside the new province, the Romans eventually produced a military outpost overlooking a bridge across the River Thames. The brand new outpost was called Londinium, and it protected just over two dozen acres. For the majority of the past 1,000 years, London has been the most dominating city on earth, ruling over very much land that it was said the sun never arranged on the Uk Empire. With the possible exception of Rome, no city has have you ever been more important or important than London in human history. Thus it was only fitted that it was the Romans who proven London as a dominant city. Londinium was primarily little more than a little military outpost close to the north boundary of the Roman province of Britannia, but its access to the River Thames and the North Sea made it a valuable location for a dock. During the middle of the first century AD, the Romans conducted another invasion of the English Isles, after which Londinium began to grow quickly. As the Romans stationed legions there to guard against the Britons, Londinium became a flourishing international dock, allowing trade with Rome and other locations across the empire.
