![]() ![]() The crisis caused the Roman emperor Nero to consider withdrawing all his forces from Britain, but Suetonius's victory over Boudica confirmed Roman control of the province. Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces, possibly in the West Midlands, and despite being heavily outnumbered he decisively defeated the Celtic Britons. An estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and Britons were killed by those following Boudica. Boudica led an army of Iceni, Trinovantes and others against a detachment of the Legio IX Hispana, defeating them and burning both Londinium and Verulamium. ![]() He lacked sufficient numbers to defend the settlement, and he evacuated and abandoned the town. Upon hearing of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium (modern London), the 20-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. They destroyed Camulodunum (modern Colchester), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but at that time a colonia for discharged Roman soldiers. In 60 or 61, when the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning on the island of Mona (modern Anglesey) on the northwest coast of Wales, Boudica led the Iceni and other British tribes in revolt. The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. When he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. He left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.īoudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two daughters, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wounds, although there is no actual evidence of either fate. John Opie's Boadicea Haranguing the Britonsīoudica or Boudicca ( / ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə/, known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug ( Welsh pronunciation: ), was the wife of a Celtic Briton king of the Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
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