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Boudica's Battle of Britain

The Ancients

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The Acadiany and the Trina Vantis

Colchester is the first place Boudicar and her followers march on. The veterans haven't evacuated, whether they don't believe that conquered and disarmed tribes could really be a great threat to them we don't know. These are hard military veterans. They presumably still have an arsenal of weapons. Taster says that one of the reasons for putting them there was to guard against rebellion. So they're presumably still pretty heavily armed in a fight. That's where tasitus begins his narrative. It's a moment of hydroma. He's finally completed the conquest of Wales. He's attacked across to Anglesey. Last refuge of the druids,. last refuge and stronghold of

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