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 The Internet Classics Archive | The Histories by Tacitus
Paullinus alleged that he feared the effects of so much additional toil and so long a march, apprehending that the Vitellianists might issue fresh from their camp, and attack his wearied troops, who, once thrown into confusion, would have no reserves to fall back upon.
Then Suetonius Paullinus, thinking that it befitted his reputation, which was such that no one at that period was looked upon as a more skilful soldier, to give an opinion on the whole conduct of the war, contended that impatience would benefit the enemy, while delay would serve their own cause.
Paullinus and Celsus no longer opposed, for they would not seem to put the Emperor in the way of peril, and these same men who suggested the baser policy prevailed on him to retire to Brixellum, and thus secure from the hazards of the field, to reserve himself for the administration of empire.
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 Suetonius: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Military History Online
The XIV Gemina were commanded by Quintus Veranius until his death, when he was succeeded by Gaius Suetonius Paullinus, the man responsible for the first invasion of Anglesey and, later, for the defeat of Boudicca.
Paullinus also knew the opposition was made up of lightly armed tribesmen, including many refugees from the mainland advance, whose armour was non-existent and who did not have the battlefield support he and his army possessed.
In contrast, whilst Suetonius Paullinus made his mark on Anglesey as the bloodiest of the invaders, Agricola took the island 15 years later, garrisoning it completely.
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 Roman Britain
Caligula planned his own campaign against the British in AD 40, but its execution was bizarre: according to Suetonius, he drew up his troops in battle formation facing the English Channel and ordered them to attack the standing water.
The governor Suetonius Paullinus, upon reaching London from his campaigning in the western part of the province, found the town indefensible with the few troops he had.
As a result, Paullinus was forced to abandon the city and took only those who could afford to leave in time to retreat with him, leaving some behind.
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 Suetonius Paullinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Paullinus acted vigorously in suppressing revolt, especially in Wales, but he was campaigning against the druids of Mona when Boudicca razed Camulodunum (circa 60) and he had to race southwards.
Paullinus advanced down Watling Street to choose a battlefield to his advantage.
Following the death of Servius Sulpicius Galba in January 69, Paullinus agreed to lead the forces of Marcus Salvius Otho against the supporters of Aulus Vitellius, and won a victory near Cremona against Aulus Caecina Alienus.
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 Osprey - Boudica's last battle
While the governor of Britain, Caius Suetonius Paullinus, was on active service with Legio XIV Germania and part of Legio XX Valeria against the Druids in Anglesey, Boudica, the widow of the late ruler of the Iceni, was flogged, her daughters raped and the kingdom plundered by the Romans.
Some writers suggest that it was in Suetonius' interest to draw the British as far north-west as possible, but this could only be achieved at the sacrifice of the tax-generating south-east, a cost a Roman governor would be unwilling to incur.
Whatever the reconnaissance reveals, Suetonius will have his legions at the ready, as close to the enemy as is prudent and saving as much as possible of the productive part of the province.
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 Roman Britain - Revolt in 60 CE
Paullinus used Chester and took a year to develop a fleet and launch it to sort out the Druids in Eryri/ Snowdonia and Ynys Mon/ Anglesey.
Paullinus was waiting in the Midlands, and had not received II Legion Augusta for reinforcements.
So Paullinus had some confidence that he could meet the opposition, on his terms at least in the Midlands, which meant first taking the attack from the Britons (watched by their families and followers) and then in disciplined formation hacking at the Britons towards the spectators and their wagons.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Suetonius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Suetonius (Caius Suetonius Tranquillus), c.AD 69-c.AD 140, Roman biographer.
Paulinus or Suetonius Paulinus (Caius Suetonius Paulinus), d.
Suetonius on how Nero became such a monster.
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 Marcus Vinicius Spatula - A Roman Story - IX - Chapter 9
With Paullinus, however, it was a matter of especial pride; and the more punctilious he was in such matters, the more obvious it was that a truly major campaign was in the offing.
Mind you, were I Paullinus, I should not even use such an enigmatic phrase.
This time, Paullinus didn't dally with allusions: there would be a concerted push into northern Cambria; further dispatches would be issued at that time.
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 Romans in Britain - The causes of the Boudiccan rebellion
Suetonius Paullinus, the current governor, was engrossed in Wales fighting the seasonal campaigns, and so had largely ignored the remainder of the country.
The Roman spies that infiltrated the tribes were reporting to Paullinus of trouble brewing in the east of the country.
Suetonius Paullinus was so heavily involved in the campaign in Wales and Anglesey, he failed to maintain a close watch on the rest of the country.
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 The history of
Suetonius Paullinus marches back with the XIV and XX legion and defeats Boudica, wiping out the rebels.
Suetonius Paullinus keeps the army mobile and garrisons the south.
Paullinus is opposed in his punitive policy by the new procurator, Gaius Julius Classicianus, who is more concerned to mend fences and build a new future.
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 Boudicca - MSN Encarta
The rebellion gathered momentum but, hastening from Wales, the Roman governor Suetonius Paullinus and the main Roman army advanced against Boudicca, destroying her force on a battlefield thought to lie near Mancetter or Towcester, on Watling Street.
The Roman emperor Nero was displeased when he heard of the Romans’ harsh treatment of the Celts after the revolt; as a result, Paullinus was recalled and conditions improved for the Celts in Roman Britain.
The enduring image of Boudicca as a heroic warrior-queen has been the subject of various literary works including the tragedy Bonduca by John Fletcher (see Beaumont and Fletcher), the ode Boadicea by William Cowper, and the poem Boadicea by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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 Tacitus' Texts
While Suetonius was employed in making his arrangements to secure the island, he received intelligence that Britain had revolted, and that the whole province was up in arms.
Suetonius, in the meantime, was detained in the isle of Mona.
Suetonius, undismayed by this disaster, marched through the heart of the country as far as London; a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce.
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In AD 60 Suetonius Paullinus, governor of Britain, and commander of the legions there, was at the Isle of Mona in the north on a campaign to destroy the Druids, fomenters of many of the tribal uprisings.
Suetonius, in the north 350 miles away, heard of the uprising by dispatch.
Suetonius picked a site for engagement of battle best suited to his strategy of war, and to effectively utilize the superiority of Roman tactics and training.
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 People of Roman Britain
Sources: Dio lx.19-23; Suetonius (Claudius) xvii, xxiv; ILS 216 (arch of Claudius), 2648 and 2701 (M. Vettius Valens and G. Gavius Silvanus, praetorians decorated in the invasion), 2696 (P. Anicius Maximus, praefectus castrorum of II Augusta decorated in the invasion).
He succeeded Suetonius Paullinus, removed on the pretext that he had lost a few ships, and thus was charged with reconstructing Britain after the Boudican Revolt.
What is particularly interesting is that Suetonius states his personal popularity was such that a large number of statues and busts of him were erected in Britain and Germany.
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 History - The Romans
She was subsequently defeated by governor Suetonius Paullinus in a pitched battle somewhere in the Midlands.
At the time the Governor of Britain, Suetonius Paullinus, and the majority of the Roman army was busy attacking the Druids at Anglesey.
Before Suetonius could return to face Boudicca her army had burned down the capital Colchester, St Albans and London, and also defeated part of the ninth Legion from Lincoln sent to put down the revolt.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 663 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was sent, together with Suetonius Paullinus and Annius Gallus, in command of the army to oppose the generals of Vitellius, who were advancing into Italy.
9] ; and it was not till the latter had been joined by Fabius Valens, and Otho had resolved, against the advice of Celsus as well as Suetonius Paullinus, to risk a battle, that the aspect of affairs was changed.
Tlie battle of Bedriacum, in which Otho's army was defeated, gave Vitellius the empire; but Celsus, who had remained faithful to Otho to the last, again did not suffer for his fidelity.
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 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, also spelled Paullinus, (flourished 1st century AD) was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated the rebellion of Boudica.
Suetonius regrouped with the Legio XIV Gemina, some detachments of the XX Valeria Victrix, and all available auxiliaries.
The Legio II Augusta, based at Exeter, was available, but its prefect, Poenius Postumus, declined to heed the call.
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General Suetonius Paullinus pacified the island in 60 AD in a major (and successful) Roman operation to destroy the druidic power in Britain.
Point of historical interest: Boudicca seised the opportunity of Suetonius Paullinus campaign against Mons to launch her rebellion.
Paullinus had to take his legion southwards in a hurry to defend Roman Britain.
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 BBC - History - An Overview of Roman Britain
The governor, Suetonius Paullinus, was in Anglesey, subduing the druids, with most of the army of the province.
What remained of the Ninth Legion was massacred when it tried to stop the rebels, and Colchester, London and Verulamium were razed to the ground.
Paullinus rushed back from Anglesey to deal with the revolt.
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 anglesey - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The island was the seat of the Druids, of whom 28 cromlechs remain, on uplands overlooking the sea, e.g.
The Druids were attacked in 61 by Suetonius Paulinus, and by Agricola in 78.
In the 5th century Caswallon lived here, and here, at Aberffraw, the princes of Gwynedd lived till 1277.
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 Tacitus: History: Book 2 [60]
At the same time the other legions, influenced by the contagion of example, and by their dislike of the German troops, were meditating war.
Vitellius detained Suetonius Paullinus and Licinus Proculus in all the wretchedness of an odious imprisonment; when they were heard, they resorted to a defence, necessary rather than honourable.
They actually claimed the merit of having been traitors, attributing to their own dishonest counsels the long march before the battle, the fatigue of Otho's troops, the entanglement of the line with the baggage-wagons, and many circumstances which were really accidental.
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 At the Edge archive: Did Boudica die in Flintshire?
Suetonius Paullinus was probably the best Roman general of his time and experienced in mountain warfare.
Paullinus knew that his army's battle drills and stabbing techniques would always win against the wild charges, slashes and unarmoured bodies of the Britons.
Serving under Paullinus was Agricola, later to become Governor of Britain, but at that time probably in his early 20's.
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 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - Wikipedia
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus war ein römischer General und Politiker des 1.
Suetonius unterdrückte energisch Rebellionen, vor allem in Wales, und war auf einem Feldzug gegen die Druiden von Mona (Anglesey), als Boudicca Camulodunum (etwa 60) zerstörte.
Otho erlitt jedoch eine entscheidende Niederlage in der Schlacht von Bedriacum, nach der Suetonius, obwohl er auf der falschen Seite gekämpft hatte, begnadigt wurde.
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 Wikipedia: Anglesey
Historically, Anglesey has long been associated with the Druids.
AD 60 the Roman general Suetonius Paullinus, determined to break the power of the druids, attacked the island, destroyed the shrine and the sacred groves.
Following the Romans, the island was invaded by Vikings, Saxons, and Normans before falling to King Edward I of England, in the 13th century.
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 Tacitus - The Life of Cnaeus Iulius Agricola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He served his military apprenticeship in Britain to the satisfaction of Suetonius Paullinus, a painstaking and judicious officer, who, to test his merits, selected him to share his tent.
Had not Paullinus on hearing of the outbreak in the province rendered prompt succour, Britain would have been lost.
By one successful engagement, he brought it back to its former obedience, though many, troubled by the conscious guilt of rebellion and by particular dread of the legate, still clung to their arms.
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 Welsh Icons - Anglesey
AD 60 the Roman general Suetonius Paullinus, determined to break the power of the druids (dreamers of the time of Boudica), attacked the island, destroying the shrine and the sacred groves.
After the Romans, the island was invaded by Vikings, Saxons, and Normans before falling to King Edward I of England, in the 13th century.
The Druids were attacked in 61 by Suetonius Paulinus, and again in 78 by Agricola.
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 M. J. Trow: Boudicca
She carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' Dio Cassius In AD 61 Roman governor Suetonius Paullinus, a veteran of mountain warfare in Africa, led a crushing defeat by the 14th and 20th legions of Boudicca's revolt.
Surviving Paullinus' crushing defeat of her troops, she is traditionally alleged to have taken poison, along with her daughters.
She had taken on the might of the greatest power of the ancient world and nearly driven it out of part of its empire; the Britons mourned her deeply and gave her a costly burial.
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