They rose again and again, and died by thousands, sword in hand.

They rose, on every possible occasion.
SUETONIUS, another Roman general, came, and stormed the Island of Anglesey (then called MONA), which was supposed to be sacred, and he burnt the Druids in their own wicker cages, by their own fires.

But, even while he was in Britain, with his victorious troops, the BRITONS rose.

Because BOADICEA, a British queen, the widow of the King of the Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted the plundering of her property by the Romans who were settled in England, she was scourged, by order of CATUS a Roman officer; and her two daughters were shamefully insulted in her presence, and her husband's relations were made slaves.

To avenge this injury, the Britons rose, with all their might and rage.