After his defeat in the southeast, Caratacus reorganised resistance among the Silures of south Wales — a fierce, dark-haired tribe whom Tacitus describes as especially warlike. For three years he conducted a guerrilla war using the mountains and forests of Wales to negate Roman military superiority. Tacitus records that "the Silures were not easily broken." Caratacus's eventual defeat did not end Silurian resistance — it intensified it.
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