WHAT IF... ...BOUDICCA HAD DEFEATED THE ROMANS?
Mar 19, 2020
3 minutes
There came a moment when Iceni queen Boudicca had good reason to believe her uprising would end in victory over the Romans. Beginning with her warriors and an alliance with a rival tribe, the Trinovantes, her horde of bloodthirsty Britons had kept growing as more joined her march through southern England in AD 60 from one success to the next. As well as ambushing and obliterating the Roman 9th Legion, she had burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans) to the ground.
“The three newly built Roman towns were all undefended,” says Miles Russell, historian, author and
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