Roman conquest of Britain Claudius returned to Rome to celebrate his victory. Caratacus escaped and would continue the resistance further west. Vespasian took a force westwards subduing tribes and capturing "oppida" as he went, going at least as far as Exeter, which would appear to have become an early base for Leg. II Augusta. Legio IX Hispana was sent north towards Lincoln () and within four years of the invasion it is likely that an area south of a line from the Humber to the Severn Estuary was under Roman control. That this line is followed by the Roman road of the Fosse Way
George (given name) by the 680s, Roman priests who had adopted the name Georgios (Giorgo) were no rarity. The given name did not, however, establish itself among laymen in the West in the early medieval period. The saint's special veneration as a military saint is a product of the High Middle Ages. His association with the dragon is due to the "Golden Legend" of c. 1260. The cult of St. George was greatly boosted during the age of the Crusades, and the name was widespread at the European courts by the 13th century. His veneration played a role in the Reconquista. A war