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This is the sort of wall the Romans built at Dover. This is Portchester, a Roman shore fort, a truly colossal structure that makes all too clear the scale of threat the Romans felt the barbarians posed. Inside it, lies a Norman castle, built a thousand years later and now completely dwarfed by it. It was one of several such forts strung out along the southern and eastern coasts. But not even fortifications like those of Portchester or Hadrian' s Wall in the north, could work without adequate troops. As more and more legionaries were sucked back to fight for Rome on the continent, and as Picts and Saxons spotting the weakness, started raids of their own from the north and east, Britannia couldn' t help but feel the chill of vulnerability. |
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zhè biàn shì luó mǎ rén zài duō fó suǒ zhù de chéng qiáng, zhè shì qiè sī tè gǎng luó mǎ hǎi bīn bǎo lěi, zhè páng rán jù wù shǐ de luó mǎ rén duì mán zú rù qīn de jù pà, bù yán zì míng. nèi bù gòu zào yǔ yī qiān nián hòu de nuò màn dì chéng bǎo xiāng sì, ér yǔ wài chéng xiāng bǐ, què rú cǐ ǎi xiǎo. zhè shì bìng jiān yán shǒu zhe dōng nán hǎi àn de bǎo lěi zhī yī. dàn jí shǐ xiàng qiè sī tè gǎng zhè yàng de fáng yù gōng shì, huò běi bù héng gèn de hā dé liáng cháng chéng. ruò wú yǔ zhī pǐ pèi de jūn duì, dōu nán yǐ fā huī zuò yòng. yóu yú dà pī luó mǎ bīng tuán bèi zhào huí ōu zhōu dà lù zuò zhàn, ér pí kè tè rén yǔ sā kè xùn rén chèn qí léi ruò zhī shí, kāi shǐ fēn bié cóng dōng běi fāng xiàng cì tàn dí qíng, bù liè diān ní yà zì zhī wēi ruò léi luǎn. |