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| | GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The causes of the Boudiccan revolt are touched upon in Suetonius' autobiography of Nero (chapter xviii), and the full story is narrated in Cornelius Tacitus' Annals (book 14, chapter 29 et. |
 | | Now, however, Britain was in the hands of Suetonius Paulinus, who in military knowledge and in popular favour, which allows no one to be without a rival, vied with Corbulo, and aspired to equal the glory of the recovery of Armenia by the subjugation of Rome's enemies. |
 | | He was heading for a confontation with the druids on Anglesey when the Iceni and their neighbours the Trinovantes were incited to revolt by queen Boudicca and went on the rampage in south-east England, sacking the colonia at Colchester, the municipium of Saint Alban's and the thriving port and administrative centre at London. |
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