Revolts Against Rome

[FredPuli43]

Boudicca famously tried and failed in a revolt against the Roman occupation. Did any leader anywhere succeed in such a revolt ?

[Canary42]

The Scots reclaimed the Lowlands by driving them back from the Antonine Wall (Northernmost boundary of the empire) to Hadrian's Wall.

[Graham-W]

Arminius defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest by getting several Germanic tribes to fight together. Although he was later assassinated the Romans didn't attempt to take Germanic lands beyond the Rhine.

[jno]

I can't think of any successful revolts from within - Zenobia went the same way as Boudicca, and so did the several Jewish revolts. The nearest one might be the battle of Adrianople, when Goths who'd been allowed to settle in the empire just a few years before beat Valens and his army in 378.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianopolis

[Scylax]

Boudicca failed in her revolt? Questionable, since she taught Rome a lesson which was never forgotten. Subsequently, there were any military leaders who brought about the collapse of the Roman empire. Boudicca contributed to that ultimate defeat.

[bookbinder]

Further to Graham-W's reply:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

[emmie]

Boudicca didn't entirely fail, she put many Roman legions to the sword, but paid a heavy price in the long term.

[FredPuli43]

Can't see that Boudicca made much difference. Don't think a revolt in the middle of the first century AD hurt the Romans much, even if rivalled elsewhere; they went on for a goodly while after that, most of it in prosperity. Am inclined to give the prize to the Germanic tribes who revolted and whose lands were never retaken.

[emmie]

had they not flogged her, raped her daughters and made off with her
property, then perhaps like her husband she would have stayed within the Roman Empire, she wasn't always their enemy.

[taffinnorfol]

A little further afield, what about Lenin, Gaddafi to name but a few ... a few clicks and I discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
"success" may be open to opinion though!!!

[jno]

the headline only asks about revolts against Rome, though taff