Unconquerable Resolve Quotes
Turkey has had much woe from defeated enemies who rebuild and strike again. The Ottoman Empire lasted so long that some defeated provinces would rise up every hundred years or so.
At the time the Romans controlled most of the world as Calgacus knew it, and he was urging his tribes, as far as he knew the furthest from Rome, to resist the Romans. The quotation comes from Tacitus, the Roman historian, who had no first hand knowledge of Calgacus’ speech, but who accompanied the Roman troops and presumably was informed by Calgacus’s troops.