A shorter history of England and greater Britain . more he was anxiousto celebrate the triumph which always followed a Roman conquest, sohe sent his general, Aulus Plautius, to Britain in the year 43 , andeven came over in person at the final stage of the campaign. Britainwas made a province and Claudius got his triumph. Thus began anoccupation which lasted nearly four hundred years. The Suppression of the Druids and the Insurrection of Boudicca. —The Druids were particularly active in opposing the extension ofRoman influence. Solely from reasons of political necessity, for theRomans were
A shorter history of England and greater Britain . more he was anxiousto celebrate the triumph which always followed a Roman conquest, sohe sent his general, Aulus Plautius, to Britain in the year 43 , andeven came over in person at the final stage of the campaign. Britainwas made a province and Claudius got his triumph. Thus began anoccupation which lasted nearly four hundred years. The Suppression of the Druids and the Insurrection of Boudicca. —The Druids were particularly active in opposing the extension ofRoman influence. Solely from reasons of political necessity, for theRomans were usually fairly tolerant of other religions, the governor,Suetonius Paullinus, undertook the suppression of their order in theyear 61 On his approach they took refuge in the little island ofMona (now Anglesey) off the Welsh coast. But there was no escapefor them. The Roman soldiers bore down upon them, smote allthat opposed them to the earth, and destroyed their sacred , events were happening in the east which forced Suetonius. 4 Longitude 3 from 2 Greenwich 1 0 B*3t & CO., THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS OF BRITAIN 13 to hurry back toward London. The Roman government had becomeunbearable. Excessive levies and financial extortion on the part ofcapitalists and tax-gatherers stirred the righteous wrath of the climax came when Boadicea or Boudicca, widow of a native chief,stung by injustice and injury, raised a revolt of her people and thoseround about, who were already charing under grievances. Camulo-dunum (Colchester), a colony of Roman veterans, was overcome andreduced to ashes, and Lundinium (London) and Verulamium () met a similar fate. Fully 70,000 Romans and their supportersare said to have been massacred. As the victorious Britons were re-turning from the destruction of Verulamium, Suetonius at length feltstrong enough to strike. In a battle somewhere in the neighborhoodof London he crushed the enemy and slaughtered numbers of a
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