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As a result of the Emperor Nero’s greed, the
greed of the procurator for the province, and the death of the King
of the Iceni, his widow is persecuted by the Romans. After
being stripped and flogged in public, and seeing her two young
daughter raped, Boudica is told by the procurator’s agents that the
Iceni are no longer ‘Friends of Rome’, all deeds of property are
confiscated as being invalid, and the procurator’s men go on the
rampage, virtually pillaging the Iceni of coin, goods, deeds and any
protable wealth.
An enraged Boudica summons an army
from the Iceni and neighbouring tribes, and over one hundred
thousand warriors descend upon the Roman built towns of the
southeast. One legion is destroyed by the army, but three others and
a handful of auxilliary alae are scattered about the south and
west. General Suetonius Paulinus succeeds in bringing together
a strong force to oppose and pursue Boudica. Camelod kept away from
the confrontation until it was resolved and Boudica had been
defeated. Bringing the Romans to battle shortly after their defeat
of the Iceni, Camelod’s legions trapped them in their fortified
encampment and after a bloody display of the power of their mobile
artillery and cavalry arms, forced a surrender. It was the end of
Rome’s occupation. Repatriation terms were settled, the merchants
and Senate were relieved to discover that the trade agreements would
continue to be honoured, and the Camelodians began the task of
incorporating the Romanised south and southeast into the
kingdom.
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