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.
Legio II Augusta from Caerleon with auxiliary cohorts
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