The Roman system of controlling of the tribes north of Hadrian's Wall broke down. Scouting was abandoned and forts like ...

Tacitus was a political player in his own right ... areas of particular interest – the life of his father-in-law, Agricola; a discussion of oratory and a description of Germania, the Roman ...

MUM: The historian, Tacitus, wrote that 300 Roman soldiers died. Of the Caledonians, 10,000 he said were killed! The survivors ran away into the forest. Agricola had won and even started to build ...

As Agricola advanced, conquering southern Scotland by AD 83, the Caledonian tribes faced imminent invasion. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the Caledonians then "turned to armed ...