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1. Did Hadrian order the wall? probably, and it’s still his, even if it took longer than his reign to build

2. Hadrian built the wall just as he fortified a number of other Roman frontiers, but it was not completed. His immediate successor abandoned it to build another wall 100 miles to the north. Afther the abortive attempt to occupy southern Scotland, the Roman frontier moved back south again.

   Severus had to restore the wall and its associated wall-forts after quashing the governor of Britain Clodius Albinus in 197 AD. Clodius taking advantage of Severus’s absence in the east to deal with Niger, proclaimed himself Emperor, gathered the entire army in Britain and sailed off to Gaul to clash with Severus. He was defeated.

   The frontier in Britain would have been in ruins with all the wall-forts long deserted and empted out with the Roman army in Britain absent for years. Severus had to proceed to Britain to crush the local tribes and rebuild the Wall.

3. TL;DW: until the 1830’s it was assumed Emperor Severus built the wall. A clergyman writing a history of Northumbria correctly identified Hadrian as the emperor who had created bothe the ditch in front of the wall, and the wall itself.

4. 1800 years ago they knew walls worked. This is evolution. Biden has yet to tell us that he fought with and learned from Hadrian.

   1. Actual footage of the original discovery of walls:

      https://youtu.be/HMSWAUAKJn0?si=q0ZBKFM2CHkHMfKW

   2. Walls do work, but Hadrian’s wall had 80 mile castles, all with gates.

5. Not only did Hadrian order the wall but it is believed he coined the phrase “GET OFF MY LAWN!”**

   **Little known historical facts. They’re so little known because I make them up.