Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated Boudica and her army during the Boudican revolt.
19th-century statue of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus on the terrace of the Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset
Boudica or Boudicca was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national her
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
…Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (fl. AD 40–69) was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated Boudica and her army during the Boudican revolt. Little is known of Suetonius' family, but it likely came from Pisaurum (modern Pesaro), a town on the Adriatic…
Boadicea Haranguing the Britons (1793)
Boudica depicted as a Tudor queen in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)
The statue Boadicea and Her Daughters by Thomas Thornycroft, near Westminster Pier, London
The History of England (1791), illustration by Francis West