Boudican Revolt

The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by Celtic Britons against Roman rule during the Roman conquest of Britain, fought around AD 60 to 61 in the Roman province of Britain and led by Boudica, queen of the Iceni. It was provoked by the Romans' refusal to honor an agreement made with Boudica's husband Prasutagus over the succession of his kingdom after his death, and by the brutal treatment of Boudica and her daughters by the occupying Romans. The Iceni, Trinovantes and other Celtic Britons rose against Rome, but the Roman army under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, though heavily outnumbered, decisively defeated the allied tribes in a final battle that inflicted heavy losses on the Britons, ending the revolt in Roman victory.