When you can't make it to Italy, or would prefer to skip its massive crowds, head to this budget-friendly French city with ...

There were soldiers from Africa, France, Germany ... Image caption, This modern painting shows Roman soldiers at Birdoswald Fort (Hadrian's Wall). A centurion watches men training.

Despite the hardships, many who had been posted to Britain settled there, taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD ...

There were soldiers from Africa, France, Germany ... Image caption, This modern painting shows Roman soldiers at Birdoswald Fort (Hadrian's Wall). A centurion watches men training.