In 409-410 AD, Zosimus records that the Britons expelled the Roman administrators and established self-governance. Emperor Honorius's famous rescript (if it refers to British cities and not Bruttium in Italy) told the civitates of Britain to look to their own defence. This is conventionally taken as the end of Roman Britain. The event was not the Roman army being defeated but the administrative and economic system of empire simply ceasing to function. Britain did not fall — it drifted away.
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