n Roman Britain was being destroyed and was falling into an age of darkness (10, 11).To save themselves from being attacked by the Picts and Irish, the Britons made an alliance with the Angles of the Jutish chieftains Hengist and Horsa. The Angle mercenaries were given the southeast lands of Essex and part of Kent in exchange for driving the barbarian hordes back into the mountains north of the old Roman walls. The Angles revolted against the Britons. Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Frisians arrived to reinforce the original mercenary army. Briton was attacked by the Angles and Saxons on the east and southern coast, capturing all of Kent, Essex, Sussex, East Anglia and Bernicia. The Gaelic pirates known as the “Scotti” meanwhile attacked the west coast and started the first Scots Kingdom. These disasters were considered the fault of the Brittish king Vortigern. He was probably the most powerful clan chieftain of the Britons, but in the end Vortigern was attacked by both the Saxons and the Britons, who felt he had betrayed them, and was killed.The Roman-Celtic Britain civilizations were destroyed, burned to the ground by the attacking barbarians. The Britons were pushed back on every border. In the year 446 a cry was sent to Roman Consul Aetius, the Military Commander of the Roman Forces of Gaul. “The Empire was collapsing and Aetius had no time to consider the plight of the Britons” (12). The Consul was trying to ally with the Goths and Franks, in an attempt to make a force strong enough to face Attila the Hun.The Britons were doomed. The Britons of the fifth century needed a champion, and miraculously two champions helped unite the Britons and turn the tables. The first champion was Ambrosius Aurelianus: the second was called Artorius. It was not Ambrosius Aurelianus who was the famous warlord of history. His successor, a Romanized Briton named Artorous, was a military leader of genius (15). Artorous t...
