In 185 AD Legion VI Victrix stationed in Britain at the time mutinied against Emperor Commodus and proclaimed their commander Priscus as Emperor...
Priscus however declined the crown and the mutiny was easily crushed by the military Tribune Pertinax...
WI Pertinax (who despised Commodus like almost everyone in the Empire) accepted the crown and marched against Commodus with the British and Gaulish Legions?
How Commodus reacts to that? And pulling Legions towards Rome and a civil war could be interpreted as an invitation to Barbarian tribes to invade...
Any thoughts?
Priscus however declined the crown and the mutiny was easily crushed by the military Tribune Pertinax...
WI Pertinax (who despised Commodus like almost everyone in the Empire) accepted the crown and marched against Commodus with the British and Gaulish Legions?
How Commodus reacts to that? And pulling Legions towards Rome and a civil war could be interpreted as an invitation to Barbarian tribes to invade...
Any thoughts?