Calgacus

Calgacus was a Caledonian army commander ( in present-day Scotland) end of the 1st century AD

He is only known from a passage in Tacitus which its campaigns in Britain described in the biography of his father- Gnaeus Julius Agricola. Agricola led the Roman troops and Britannic auxiliary troops in the year 83 or 84 AD, in the fight against the Caledonians, the last undefeated tribe in the north of the British Isles, to.

According to Tacitus called Calgacus, who stood out among the Caledonian leaders, before the Battle of Mons Graupius probably in the year 84 AD his countrymen in an impassioned speech to union and complained to the Romans as the aggressors on. Calgacus ' most well-known phrase that 's like the whole speech not authentic, but comes from Tacitus, is repeatedly used to criticism of Roman imperialism: " looting, murdering, raping call them with a false name rule, and where they create solitude, they speak of peace. " ( Aufferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. )

Although the Caledonians were superior to the Romans in numbers, they were defeated in this battle. A little later, however, Agricola was recalled to Rome by Emperor Domitian, so that the Romans could not use to expand their empire to victory in the Scottish coastal land, the only attempt that led far north of the later Antoninuswalles in an area.

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• Military person ( Antiquity)
• Celt
• Born in the 1st century
• Died on the 1st or 2nd century
• Man