This International Women's Day, we honor one of history’s most fearless female warriors—Boudica, Queen of the Iceni! ⚔️🔥 When the Roman Empire sought to conquer Britain, Boudica led a ...

Watling Street, of course also runs through Lichfield and Cannock, being constructed about 70AD. Although not featured in the programme, it runs through the Roman settlement of Letocetum in what ...

They destroyed Colchester and wiped out the Roman 9th Legion. They burned London - or ‘Londinium’, ... Boudica’s army was finally defeated at the Battle of Watling Street. However, ...

Ermine Street Guard. Rome invaded Britain in AD43, using four legions, ... An author believes he has discovered a previously unknown battle involving a famous lost Roman legion.

Watling Street was built shortly after the Roman invasion in 43 AD and served as one of the most important arterial roads in Roman Britain. It ran northwest from the critical port of Dover ...

Gaul (modern-day France) had been brought under Roman control by Julius Caesar in 46BCE and Britain was finally subjugated after the failed revolt of Boudicca at the Battle of Watling Street in 61CE.

The ancient Roman road of Watling Street, which once took centurions and their legions from Dover to London, survives pretty much in name only – until now.