During the years 48-50 AD, Caratacus directed the Silures in a sustained guerrilla campaign against the Roman frontier. Tacitus records that the Silures were so difficult to suppress that Ostorius Scapula threatened to exterminate them — a threat the Silures remembered and used as propaganda to strengthen their own resistance. The period saw Roman forts attacked, supply convoys ambushed, and territory repeatedly raided — classic guerrilla insurgency against a superior conventional force.
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