The Celtiberian War
(...)"One survivor of the massacre was Viriathus, who emerged as the leader of the Lusitanians in a sustained guerrilla war against Rome (significantly, guerrilla, itself, is Spanish in origin, from the diminutive of guerra, war). He first gained fame when he managed to save his countrymen just as they were about to surrender. Reminding them of Rome's perfidy, he promised deliverance if they would obey him. "Excited by the new hopes with which he inspired them, they chose him as their leader." With a select band of men on horseback, attacking and retreating, he harassed the Romans in the field for two days, giving the others a chance to scatter and escape. In 147 BC, the praetor of Ulterior and ten thousand Romans were ambushed and killed. The next year, his successor was defeated as well, and Viriathus overran the province."(...)
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