[00:02.181]In a show of brutal arrogance, the local governor, had East Anglia declared a slave province.
[00:08.276]To make the point about exactly who owned whom
[00:11.224]Boudicca was then treated to a public flogging while her two daughters were raped in front of her.
[00:19.943]In 60 AD,Boudicca rose up in furious revolt, quickly gathering an army bent on vengeance.
[00:27.183]With the cream of the Roman troops tied down suppressing an insurgency in north Wales
[00:33.038]Boudicca's army marched towards the place which most symbolised the now-hated Rom
[00:38.857]An colonisation of Britain, Colchester.
[00:42.097]It helped that it was lightly garrisoned.
[00:44.736]After a firestorm march through eastern England
[00:47.068]Burning Roman settlements one by one
[00:49.422]It was the city's turn.
[00:52.289]The frightened Roman colonists then had to fall back to the one place
[00:56.280]They were sure that they were going to be protected by their emperor and their gods
[01:01.544]the great temple of Claudius.
[01:10.022]If the terrified Romans, thought they were going to escape the implacable anger of Boudicca
[01:15.843]They were seriously out of luck.
[01:18.034]With thousands of them huddled terrified, in the temple above these foundations
[01:23.760]She began to set light to it.
[01:25.606]They must have been able to smell the scorch and smoke and fire coming towards them,
[01:30.618]as the whole of their spanking new imperial city burned down with themselves and everything else here buried in smoke and ash.
[01:39.884]Thousands died in this place. Boudicca had her revenge.