Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
In collaboration with Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, he suppressed the revolt led by Aedemon in the mountainous province that arose from the execution of the local ruler by Caligula.[2] In 41 AD Suetonius was the first Roman commander to lead troops across the Atlas Mountains,[3] and Pliny the Elder quotes his description of the area in his Natural History.[6] Two future governors served under him: Quintus Petillius Cerialis as legate of Legio IX Hispana,[7] and Gnaeus Julius Agricola[8] as a military tribune attached to II Augusta, but seconded to Suetonius's staff.Suetonius brought Mona to terms[vague] and marched along the Roman road of Watling Street to Londinium (London), the rebels' next target, but judged he did not have the numbers to defend the city and ordered it evacuated.The resulting battle took place at an unidentified location in a defile with a wood behind him, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along Watling Street – at Cuttle Mill, 2 miles southeast of Towcester in Northamptonshire, in front of a narrow defile which answers the topographical description of Tacitus, human bones have been found over a large area;[11] High Cross in Leicestershire and Manduessedum near the modern day town of Atherstone in Warwickshire have also been suggested - where Roman tactics and discipline triumphed over British numbers.