The saddest fact about the British tribes was that they were incapable of mixing together without bloodshed.
The Trinovantes, a powerful tribe, offer to become Rome's allies, and several other British tribes follow suit.
The Indians used the blacks as translators to advance their trading with the British and other tribes.
The British tribes fought the detachment in the field and defeated it, routing the Romans.
They were among the few British tribes that resisted the Roman invasion.
Our concern here, however, is to follow the changes in the attitudes of the British tribes to the invasion and the later consolidation.
By claiming that the British tribes had helped the Gauls he had just cause to invade.
We were gratified to leam that only two of the British tribes complied.
In the 1st century the Romans recorded the Votadini as a British tribe.
During the second year of their campaign against the British tribes, the Roman legions are under great pressure to complete their mission.