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 | | But the first direct Roman contact came when the Roman general and future dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, endowed with a proconsular imperium for all of Gaul in the first century BC, briefly invaded Britain (in the year 55 BC and again in 54 BC) as an offshoot of his campaigns in Belgium and Gaul. |
 | | In 61, while governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales, the south-east rose in revolt under Boudica, queen of the Iceni, provoked by the seizure of the tribe's lands and the brutal treatment of the queen and her daughters. |
 | | In Britain, a governor's role was primarily military but numerous other tasks were also his responsibility such as maintaining diplomatic relations with local client kings, building roads, ensuring the public courier system functioned, supervising the civitates and acting as a judge in important legal cases. |
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