<P> In 60 -- 61 , while Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales , the southeast of Britain rose in revolt under the leadership of Boudica . Boudica was the widow of the recently deceased king of the Iceni , Prasutagus . The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched . He was wrong . When his will was enforced , Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe 's lands in full . Boudica protested . In consequence , Rome punished her and her daughters by flogging and rape . In response , the Iceni , joined by the Trinovantes , destroyed the Roman colony at Camulodunum ( Colchester ) and routed the part of the IXth Legion that was sent to relieve it . Suetonius Paulinus rode to London ( then called Londinium ) , the rebels ' next target , but concluded it could not be defended . Abandoned , it was destroyed , as was Verulamium ( St. Albans ) . Between seventy and eighty thousand people are said to have been killed in the three cities . But Suetonius regrouped with two of the three legions still available to him , chose a battlefield , and , despite being heavily outnumbered , defeated the rebels in the Battle of Watling Street . Boudica died not long afterwards , by self - administered poison or by illness . During this time , the Emperor Nero considered withdrawing Roman forces from Britain altogether . </P>
<P> In 60 -- 61 , while Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales , the southeast of Britain rose in revolt under the leadership of Boudica . Boudica was the widow of the recently deceased king of the Iceni , Prasutagus . The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched . He was wrong . When his will was enforced , Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe 's lands in full . Boudica protested . In consequence , Rome punished her and her daughters by flogging and rape . In response , the Iceni , joined by the Trinovantes , destroyed the Roman colony at Camulodunum ( Colchester ) and routed the part of the IXth Legion that was sent to relieve it . Suetonius Paulinus rode to London ( then called Londinium ) , the rebels ' next target , but concluded it could not be defended . Abandoned , it was destroyed , as was Verulamium ( St. Albans ) . Between seventy and eighty thousand people are said to have been killed in the three cities . But Suetonius regrouped with two of the three legions still available to him , chose a battlefield , and , despite being heavily outnumbered , defeated the rebels in the Battle of Watling Street . Boudica died not long afterwards , by self - administered poison or by illness . During this time , the Emperor Nero considered withdrawing Roman forces from Britain altogether . </P>
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Boudica
Boudica