Suetonius Paulinus evacuated Londinium rather than defend it with insufficient troops, abandoning civilians to their fate. Boudicca's forces burned the city and massacred an estimated 25,000 people. A distinctive red-ochre layer found beneath modern London streets is the archaeological fingerprint of this destruction. This was the largest single catastrophe in Britain's recorded history to that date.
c.25,000 civilians killed
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