Boudica's Battle of Britain
The Ancients
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The Battle of Anglesey
It's also pretty clever timing from Boudicar, isn't it? If you've got the main bulk of Roman soldiers, the other side of the island to where she is in East Anglia. The big question as to whether there was any orchestration, perhaps with the druids, very mysterious order. We're not told a lot about them, but tasitus is strongly hinting in his narrative that Anglesey was a major centre of the druids,. And therefore, whether or not this was a distraction event at the other end of the province to draw the army away. She couldn't have picked a better moment.
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