Boudicca's warriors successfully defeated the Romans and completely destroyed the Romans, in their own capital. They even destroyed London and St Albans. The Roman army left these cities largely unprotected. The cost of Boudicca's victory in these first three battles, in terms of human lives, was high. The battle was brutal most of the time and all the cities were totally destroyed. Thousands of people left the cities; and the raffle killed between 70,000 and 80,000 citizens, including 2,000 Roman soldiers. Two of the soldiers having no interest in taking or selling prisoners, Tacitus and the British, instead resorted to massacre by Gilbert, fire or fire.