BattlefieldsFrontinus Assault on Silurian Hillforts 74-75 AD
Roman Period

Frontinus Assault on Silurian Hillforts 74-75 AD

74–75
Monmouthshire, Wales
Also known as: Frontinus individual hillfort assaults in Wales · Silurian final resistance 74 AD
Era
Roman Period
Battle Type
Siege
Location
Monmouthshire, Wales
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Silures
VS
Victor
Rome (Sextus Julius Frontinus)
Outcome
Series of hillforts in the Gwent and Glamorgan uplands systematically taken; Silurian resistance finally broken
The Battle

History & Significance

Frontinus completed what four previous governors had failed to achieve — the subjugation of the Silures. Frontinus was a military writer of the first order (his Strategemata survives) and he applied systematic methodical reduction of each Silurian stronghold. Tacitus records that Frontinus overcame not only the enemy but also the geography itself. The conquest of the Silures opened South Wales to Roman civilian administration.

Forces Involved

Legio II Augusta from Caerleon with auxiliary cohorts

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