Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a Roman general and politician of the 1st century AD

As a military leader he went as praetor, 41-42, after Mauretania to suppress a rebellion. He was the first Roman who crossed the Atlas Mountains. Between 42 and 44 Paulinus was Suffektkonsul. In 58 he was governor of Britain, and thus commander of the local army.

Suetonius vigorously suppressed rebellions, especially in Wales, and was on a campaign against the druids of Mona ( Anglesey, Llyn Cerrig Bach, see also ), as Boudicca Camulodunum ( about 60 ) destroyed. He had to hurry southward march, but could not reach Verulamium (near St Albans ) and Londinium, so that both towns, wore heavy damage. Paulinus moved up to the Watling Street to seek a battlefield of his choice. The two armies met for battle at the Watling Street to one another at an unknown location from which one merely assumes that it could be set at Manduessedum near the present-day Atherstone in Warwickshire in the Midlands. The discipline of the Roman army was enough to beat the numerically far superior British in escape. According to Tacitus, the Roman 10,000 80,000 British fighters faced each other. The army moved Boudicca's wedge-shaped toward the waiting Romans, but Melee led the superior weapons and discipline of the Romans to withdraw the attacker. Tacitus states that the own Fouragewagen escape the British prevented, so that the defeat was to slaughter. Even women and children accompanied the insurgents. Tacitus reports of losses of 80,000 people on brit norman side, compared with 400 on the Roman side.

In the year 62, shortly after the victory, took the Emperor Nero Suetonius back from Britain. In 66 Suetonius was probably for the second time consul. After the death of Emperor Galba in January 69, at the Four Emperors year, Suetonius took over the forces of Otho against the supporters of Vitellius and achieved at Cremona a victory against Aulus Caecina Alienus. However, Otho suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Bedriacum, after Suetonius, although he had fought on the wrong side, was pardoned. His fate is unknown.