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Significant60 CE – 61 CE · 1 year

Battle of Watling Street

West Midlands, Roman Britain (exact site uncertain, possibly near Watling Street)

Estimated casualties

400 – 80Kestimated dead

Tacitus reports ~400 Roman dead and as many as 80,000 Britons killed; the British figure is almost certainly grossly exaggerated. Site and totals uncertain.

SOURCETacitus (ancient) summarized on Wikipedia

The Roman governor Suetonius Paulinus crushed the much larger British army of Queen Boudica, ending the Iceni-led revolt against Roman rule in Britain. Despite being heavily outnumbered, Roman discipline in a confined battlefield proved decisive.

Belligerents2

  • Roman Empire
  • Britonnic coalition (Iceni, Trinovantes and allies)

ON THE MAPRoman Empire (Augustus)

Conflict graph

PART OFRoman conquest of Britain

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Watling Street
  2. Britannica: Boudicca
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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