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In Search of Caratacus: Great King of Iron Age Briton
"In Search of Caratacus" refers to the Roman campaign following the 43 AD invasion of Britain to capture Caratacus, a British chieftain of the Catuvellauni who resisted Roman conquest and led guerrilla-style resistance in Wales for nearly a decade. His eventual defeat and capture around 51 AD—followed by his famous defiant speech in Rome that earned him a pardon—made him a celebrated symbol of nat