Topic

Great Conspiracy

Subject Conflict 367 CE – 368 CE

The Great Conspiracy is a term given to the year-long war that occurs in Roman Britain near the end of the Roman occupation of the island.

The historian Ammianus Marcellinus described it as a barbarica conspiratio that capitalized on a depleted military force in the province brought about by Magnentius' losses of the Battle of Mursa Major after his unsuccessful bid to become emperor.