The Helvetii were the last survivors of Celtic domination of Central Europe.

Their deliberate slaughter, all 250,000 of them, men, women and children, was the work of Gaius Julius Caesar.

The surrender of Vercingetorix to Julius Caesar

The conquests of Clovis, King

of the Merovingian

Franks.

Suetonius Paulinus the imperial governor returned from

campaigning in Wales to London after hearing of the massacre of the IXth Legion at St. Albans by Boudicca and her Iceni Army.

He then rejoined his main body of troops, Cavalry and

Legionaries (plus Auxillary Hamian Archer) comprising of

the XIVth Legion who were part of the XXth Legion (total of

10,000 men). With this army he later gave battle and defeated Boudicca. (This battle being

fought in the midlands of

England.)