Tacitus records that the Silures of south-east Wales surrounded and nearly destroyed a Roman foraging party and its cavalry escort. When two cohorts were sent to the rescue, the Silures attacked them too. More troops had to be sent before the Romans could extricate themselves. The Silures proved so dangerous that Ostorius threatened to exterminate them — which only intensified their resistance. One of the earliest recorded Roman disasters in Wales.
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