Summary Of The Claudian Chronicles

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These Chronicles, show the life and times of the people of Britain, and are set at the time of the Claudian Invasion, of Britain, by the Legions of Rome.

To show, how, and why, the Roman legions, were determined to capture and destroy Boudicca, the new Queen of the Iceni, after the death of her husband, the King Prasutagus.

A death, that was the result of the struggle for power between the Iceni Chieftain Esupa Astus, and the evil forces of the black magic, that he used to try to destroy the rightful king with one of the great Talismans of power given to humans by the Gods. The amulet of Arawn

This Chronicle is set in the years of AD Sixty one, and at the time when the scourging of Boudicca, will lead the great rebellion against the

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