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"[The Romans] thinking that it might be some help the allies [Britons], whom these were forced to reject, constructed a strong stone wall from sea to sea, in a in a straight line line between your towns that were there built for fear of the enemy, where Severus also possessed previously built a rampart." - Bede's information of Hadrian's Wall membrane in the centre Ages The famous conqueror from the Western continent arrived ashore with thousands of men, ready to set up a fresh kingdom in England. The Britons possessed resisted the amphibious invasion as soon as his forces landed, but he was able to push ahead. In a large winter challenge, the Britons' large army attacked the invaders but was eventually routed, and the conqueror was able to set up a fresh kingdom. Over 1,a century before William the Conqueror became the Ruler of England following the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar arrived, found, and conquered part of "Britannia", setting up a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BCE. Inside the new province, the Romans eventually designed a armed service outpost looking over a bridge over the River Thames. The brand new outpost was called Londinium, and it covered just over two dozen acres. For almost all of the past 1,000 years, London has been the most prominent city on earth, ruling over a great deal land that it was said sunlight never set on the English Empire. Along with the possible exception of Rome, no city has ever been more important or influential than London in history. Thus, it was only fitted that it was the Romans who founded London as a visible city.