Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire
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The Battle of Tassa
Tacitus tells us that every living thing on the field was killed. This is another of those examples of the Roman army just being ordered to commit genocide. The Romans do win. It's an absolute victory. A crushing victory and it effectively must have stamped that part of the rebellion out, cold,. probably the rebellion of the Akane and the Trinivantes. Do we know exactly what happens to her after the battle? Not reliably.
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