Download or read book The Lantern Bearers written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roma-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.