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He never entertained the least ambition or hope of augmenting and extending the frontiers of the empire.
On the contrary, he had thoughts of withdrawing the troops from Britain, and was only restrained from so doing by the fear of appearing to detract from the glory of his father.Claudius had received the submission of some of the British tribes.
See c. xvii.
of his Life. In the reign of Nero, his general, Suetonius Paulinus, attacked Mona or Anglesey, the chief seat of the Druids, and extirpated them with great cruelty.
The successes of Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, who inhabited Derbyshire, were probably the cause of Nero's wishing to withdraw the legions; she having reduced London, Colchester, and Verulam, and put to death seventy thousand of the Romans and their British allies.
She was, however, at length defeated by Suetonius Paulinus, who was recalled for his severities.
See Tacit. Agric.
xv. I, xvi. ; and Annal. xiv. 29. All that he did was to reduce the
kingdom of Pontus, whi