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+ "while it is true that suetonius setup the final battle with boudicca at watling street he had\n",
+ "neither the troops nor the tactical ability to overcome the huge numerical disadvantage faced by his\n",
+ "army without the support of agricola and his talented scouts defeat would have been inevitable and\n",
+ "with it the loss of britannia having realised that the iceni were reading his communications\n",
+ "agricola arranged to plant false information about the planned disposition of troops setting a trap\n",
+ "into which the iceni fell it is still unclear how the savage tribes had learned to decipher our army\n",
+ "s communications as they had no writing of their own however every army has its traitors and it\n",
+ "seems likely to me that one or more of the local tribespeople turned someones head love or money it\n",
+ "is all treachery but this act threatened to undermine the empires entire system of secure\n",
+ "communication the caesar cipher perhaps more than roads had enabled the empire to function securely\n",
+ "and its loss was a disaster turning that loss into a victory on the battlefield deserved more\n",
+ "recognition than it received perhaps suetonius never knew or perhaps he failed to understand the\n",
+ "cunning of the plan but either way despite the victory agricola and the ninth legion remained in\n",
+ "disgrace on hearing this news claudius caesar augustus germanicus nero emperor issued a secret\n",
+ "proclamation establishing a cipher school to develop a new system of imperial ciphers it worked in\n",
+ "secret for over twenty years developing new methods to secure communications across the empire\n",
+ "studying the works of the greeks ages euclid and hypatia and even older works from ancient babylon\n",
+ "the school developed new ways to safeguard communications from rome s enemies these new systems were\n",
+ "written down and distributed in the codex occult orum perhaps the most strictly guarded document in\n",
+ "all history when it was finally completed many years later the emperor domitian issued an executive\n",
+ "order which prefaced every copy of the codex that it was to be guarded by every legion to the last\n",
+ "man the defeat of the iceni and the suicide of boudicca perhaps protected the ninth legion from\n",
+ "dissolution agricola was largely left to his own devices in the province though it was made clear to\n",
+ "him that to return would mean at best disgrace and at worst death in a break with tradition the\n",
+ "ninth raised a new standard the legion was exiled in disgrace to endure the hard and dangerous work\n",
+ "of subduing the caledon ii in the bleak wildernesses of caledonia suetonius ordered the ninth to\n",
+ "march toe bora cum which they were to make their base for raids into caledonia the unspoken reason\n",
+ "for their exile was that intelligence reports suggested that this was where they might find their\n",
+ "lost aquila those who would read on must follow my faithful slave tiro who faces a grave task\n",
+ "perhaps the largest to date a she travels to conceal the fourth chapter of this tragic tale\n"
+ ]