“Spain, Gaul, and Britain were peopled by the same hardy race of savages.”—Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Savage? Maybe. Stubborn?…
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Category: Rome
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” – Benjamin Franklin Throughout history, a nation’s military has often been…