Cassi

The Cassi are one of five tribes encountered by Julius Caesar during his second expedition to Britain in 55 BC when he crossed the Thames at Kew. [Julius Caesar, "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Caes.+Gal.+5.21 5.21] ] and who became became his allies after the Trinovantes joined him. The archaeologists Graham Webster and Barry Cunliffe both agree that nothing more is known about them. [cite book | last = Cunliffe | first = Barry W. | authorlink = Barry Cunliffe | coauthors = | title = Iron Age Communities in Britain: An Account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest | publisher = Routledge | date = 2005 | location = | pages = 139 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3lkEgdtOvGEC&pg=PT155&dq=cassi+caesar&num=100&ei=ZPUlSITGHYOOywTW8-CfDQ&client=firefox-a&sig=qJ0ZVTTSaOPUijv2HqNyBG0ZqoU | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0415347792 ] [cite book | last = Webster | first = Graham | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 | publisher = Routledge | date = 2000 | location = | pages = 32 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=2ErJer9JlyAC&pg=PA32&dq=cassi+Gaul&ei=FpchSJSoOqHayAT38YXGDQ&client=firefox-a&sig=0DPPV_lSE8FAYPaYSyYjsJdeIUg | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0415226066 ] but it has been suggested that between Caesar's second invasion and the invasion of Claudius in AD 43 that the Cassi along with other tribes such as the Ancilite and Briboci merged to form the Catuvellauni, and that Cassivellaunus may have been a member of the Cassi tribe. [cite book | last = Williamson | first = Tom | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Origins of Hertfordshire | publisher = Manchester University Press | date = 2000 | location = | pages = 43-44 | url = http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=L87sjkrXr60C&oi=fnd&pg=PR6&dq=cassi+%22keith+branigan%22+Caesar&ots=_NaEjVVZez&sig=VVrmL8VXSRwxLB7cW6wEGt7GtkY#PPA43,M1 | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0719044915 ] [cite book | last = Dyer | first = James | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Ancient Britain | publisher = Routledge | date = 2002 | location = | pages = 168 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=8YUkJUVg3-EC&pg=PA168&dq=Cassi+caesar+Catuvellauni&ei=wXMpSLzfGZzkyATRwaiNBw&client=firefox-a&sig=9cEaRJLp6W-YgzhQcEkyaNxMJVA | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0415151511 ]

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