For several years before his defeat at Caer Caradoc, Caratacus organised resistance among the Silures of south Wales and the Ordovices of mid-Wales. Tacitus records repeated Roman reverses — foraging parties cut off, cohorts ambushed, auxiliary cohorts destroyed. The Silures — a fierce tribe in south Wales — proved nearly impossible to subjugate even after Caratacus was gone. Ostorius Scapula reportedly said in exasperation that the Silures should be exterminated. His successor Didius Gallus faced the same intractable resistance. The guerrilla war tested Roman military adaptability to its limits.
Multiple Roman cohorts suffered serious losses
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