Queen Boudicca

She would have faced the difficult prospect of defeating a second roman legion and an auxillary legion, who woud be marching east as quickly as possible from the Silures tribal land to prevent her from destroying any more valuable settlements. The first thing that would no doubt happen is the commander of these forces would urgently request reinforcements.

Nero did send additional men to aid Paulus Suetonius in quelling the Britons after he had defeated Boudicca. Tacticus writes:

'The emperor strengthened the forces by sending from Germany two thousand legionaries, eight cohorts of auxiliaries, and a thousand cavalry.'

Whether he was being accurate is debatable, but I'd reckon it would be enough to prevent Boudicca from doing much more damage.

However, this would leave the Silures and their neighbouring tribes in control of their lands, and the Iceni have managed to prove a very powerful point. Mismanagement on the part of the governor isn't particularly popular. Perhaps the Romans decide that it might be better just to install a new governor and try to retain the foothold they still have. Better treatment, some form of compensation and more autonomy might coax the Britons out of their fury. Perhaps the Romans stick to romanising more of the native tribes instead of conquering them outright.
 
The only thing stopping her is the disunity of the British tribes. If we can get others to join her (or at least attack the Romans seperatly) then the Romans would reconsider conquest. Could they view it like Scotland? Just not worth the effort?
 
The only thing stopping her is the disunity of the British tribes. If we can get others to join her (or at least attack the Romans seperatly) then the Romans would reconsider conquest. Could they view it like Scotland? Just not worth the effort?

Unless they get as badly chewed up as the Teutoburg Forest disaster, the Romans are going to keep coming.

Assuming that they are, they can always dig in just north a line running from Glevium to Londinium and hold that. With the romans apparently off their backs most of the tribes will go back farming and cattle raiding each other.
 
From what I have read she had a army of some 200,000 strong and after each victory more tribe joined in. If to my knowalge ishe would have won that last battle Romes Army in british isle at that time would have been almost nonexistent. Would Nero sent another army after a devisting defeat.When the Roman army got stopped in Scotland and could not finish they complete conquest for the isles the stopped and built there wall.
 
From what I have read she had a army of some 200,000 strong
Horde, not army. A rabble that size is still a rabble and real troops in a straight fight could (and do) kick its butt. The only way for it to win would have been to ambush the Romans a la the Teutoburg Forest.

When the Roman army got stopped in Scotland and could not finish they complete conquest for the isles the stopped and built there wall.
Not technically correct. They built Hadrian's Wall a few years after they stopped the push north. Then they started again and built the Antonine Wall. Later they dropped back to Hadrian's Wall. In terms of length the Antonine Wall is shorter. However the country between it and Hadrian's Wall was inhabited by unromanised/uncivilised natives; not a good security situation.

To roll up the Highlands permanently the Romans would have to achieve what the kings of Scotland never really did and given they had not tax incentive to do so, it is not surprising that they did not bother.
 
Assuming that they are, they can always dig in just north a line running from Glevium to Londinium and hold that. With the romans apparently off their backs most of the tribes will go back farming and cattle raiding each other.

That would be interesting. Didn't the Romans conquer Britannia just because the mines in Cornwall? Maybe they just keep the southern strip of the island like the Byzantines did later in crimea. That would mean little Roman population in Britain and probably no Christian Britain and (most important) Ireland in the Dark Ages. Who knows, maybe Charlemagne or an equivalent is tempted to cross the Channel, conquer and christianize those dirty island barbarians...
 
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