While Boudica's army continued their assault in Verulamium ( St. Albans ), Suetonius regrouped his forces.

King's Cross was originally named Battle Bridge, referring to an ancient bridge over The Fleet where Boudica's army is said to have fought an important battle against the Romans.

While Boudica's army continued their assault in Verulamium ( St. Albans ), Suetonius regrouped his forces.

When Boudica's army attacked Camulodunum ( Colchester ), the inhabitants sent to the procurator for help, but he sent only two hundred men.

Cassius Dio, on the other hand, tells an alternative version of Boudica's death, simply saying that she " fell sick and died.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

30 died after 83 ) was a Roman general and administrator who served in Britain during Boudica's rebellion and who went on to participate in the civil wars after the death of Nero.

A local legend claims that Boudica's rebellion against the Romans ended in the neighbourhood, when she poisoned herself with hemlock gathered on the banks of Cobbins Brook.

Boudica's forces, rebelling against Roman rule, first destroyed Camulodunum and then defeated the Roman legion sent from Lindum ( Lincoln ) to retrieve the city.

In AD 50, Britain's first city, Colonia Claudia Victricensis, was founded there, but the city was razed and its citizens massacred in Boudica's rebellion in AD 60.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

The Roman general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus managed to send some troops to London before Boudica's much larger forces arrived.

Boudica's husband Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni tribe, who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will.

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

Dio says that, even if they were lined up one deep, they would not have extended the length of Boudica's line.

The Roman soldiers, who had now used up their pila, were then able to engage Boudica's second wave in the open.

The location of Boudica's defeat is unknown.

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

The 2012 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play The Wrath of the Iceni starring Tom Baker takes place during Boudica's uprising against the Romans.

The suggestion is that this contributed to Boudica's rebellion, and so possibly to his own fall.

According to Cassius Dio, Boudica's forces impaled Roman captives during her rebellion against the Roman occupation, to the accompaniment of revelry and sacrifices in the sacred groves of Andate.

Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake ', restored a historical and cultural foundation to Britain.

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain's native cultural and historical knowledge of Boudica's rebellion, with anything else of pre-Roman occupation, is solely due to the deliberate erasure of indigenous culture with the subsequently revised public image transformed from the propaganda writings of Romans.

According to folklore, King's Cross is the site of Boudica's final battle and perhaps she is buried under one of the platforms.

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The entire army took up position along the ridge-line ; as casualties fell in the front lines the rear ranks would move forward to fill the gaps.