Soon the whole of the Britain` s South was aflame.
Boadicea with her tribe, the Duotrigs, Brigants Trinovanites and others who joined them set upon Camulodunum (Colchester), assailed it and burned it to the ground with its temple dedicated to Caludius (as proclaimed God) and eradicated the IX. Legion hasting (too late) to its aid. Self-confident due to the victory they turned to Londoneum (London). Nowadays Capital had some 20,000 inhabitants and of these all were with great cruelty and atrocities slaughtered. London was burned and wiped out. Suetonius Paulinus was helpless, his legions were out of reach and not gathered to stand the Celts and thus Verulamium (St. Albans) was razed and its inhabitants rendered the same fate as those of London. Nothing seemed to possibly hinder Boadicea from driving the Romans from Britain apart from Suetonius Paulinus. 100,000 – 230,000 furious Celts against 11,000 – 13,000 well-trained and disciplined legionaries.





The decisive battle took place somewhere around Mancetter in nowadays Leiceshire. The close Vale gave the Celts no chance to spread and fight effectively the well-organised rows of the Legions. A hecatomb. Within a few hours the battle was over. The rebellion was broken down and all the Celtic resistance alike. Boadicea died, she probably devoured a lethal dose of poison to prevent herself from becoming a token of the roman victory.

Strong oppression and terror followed. Suetonius Paulinus marched to and fro through the land and slew every Celt he encountered. Britain was conquered and finally made a part of the Roman Empire.


In the 5TH century AD Rome was hardly pressed by the endless raids of the Goths and Vandals. The legions were withdrawn from the distant provinces such as Britain to defend the City. Thus it is brought to its end, the Roman dominion over the Isles.

As the legions were gone, Britain was left de facto defenceless. New invaders came raiding. They called themselves the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. The Celtic period was gone.