Europe | Magnum castellum
A Roman fort in Holland is linked to the conquest of Britain
Dutch archaeologists dig up a remnant of a successful invasion
|AMSTERDAM
INVADING A country is rarely easy, as Vladimir Putin discovered this week. Most efforts to conquer Britain, for instance, have been dismal flops. The most recent one, in 1940, never even got out of port. After they gave up, the Nazis studded Europe’s coast with defensive bunkers; many still dot the dunes of Holland.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Imperial invaders”
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