# Annals 14 narrates Boudica’s revolt, the sack of Camulodunum and Londinium, and the Roman suppression

Date: 116

## The fact

Annals 14.29–39 tell the Icenian revolt: confiscation and assault on a royal house, sack of three towns, and a final Roman victory with huge reported dead. He did not serve on that staff. Humanitarian harm includes both the provincial abuses that spark the war and the suppression. It is not a twin of Agricola’s 80s campaigns. Archival locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Boudica is a subject of the Annals, as the related-people list must say. Humane access here is denied to towns and to the defeated. Archival locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Annals 14 narrates Boudica’s revolt, the sack of Camulodunum and Londinium, and the Roman suppression. Naming Tacitus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0116-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

LacusCurtius Annals 14 is the public English. Britannica independently treats Boudica through [Tacitus](/people/tacitus) as a principal source. Latin Library Annals 14 is the Latin. Archaeology of Colchester and London is later and is not his act. Archival locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html; University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

## Significance

A portable revolt story is a humanitarian path: cities burned, bodies counted in the tens of thousands as claims. Medium-high confidence on the outline; the totals are not a modern disaster table. Later nationalist Boudica is reception. Archival locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## What is established and what is not

Established: Annals 14 revolt narrative as his. Not established: unique death totals, or a recovered Icenian archive. Conventional Annals date. Not a 19th-century statue. Archival locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Boudica is a subject, not a colleague. Agricola’s later Britain is a different decade. Mixed effects of Annals 14 narrates Boudica’s revolt, the sack of Camulodunum and Londinium, and the Roman suppression are separate paths.

The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Tacitus: https://factrail.ai/people/tacitus

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tac-boudica-annals