Tacitus records that the Silures, flushed with success, defeated even a legionary detachment in open battle — an extremely rare event in the Roman conquest era. Roman forts were attacked, auxiliary units routed, and the Silures reportedly boasted that Ostorius would suffer the fate of Paullinus Fabius (an earlier Roman general killed by Galatians). The ferocity of Silurian resistance has been confirmed archaeologically by the late construction of the fortress at Caerleon.
Significant Roman legionary casualties (unusually high for the conquest)
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