She Crucified Her Enemies And Burnt London To The Ground. Meet Britain's First Feminist, Boadicea

Daily Mail ^ | 2-6-2008 | Paul Johnson

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http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Warrior-Queen-Boudica-Posters_i1653724_.htm

[mware]

I heard that Mel Gibson was considering making a movie about her life.

Kind of the female version of Braveheart.

[SunkenCiv]

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/boudica/boudicanrevolt.html

“’...According to one report almost eighty thousand Britons fell. Our own casualties were about four hundred dead and a slightly larger number of wounded. Boudica poisoned herself.’ ...Hostile tribes, as well as those who had been neutral, were harried and suffered punitive reprisals... There also was famine, as the Britons had neglected to sow their crops for the season, assuming that they would capture the Roman stores.”

[SunkenCiv]

I agree to some extent — she led the Iceni and various other tribes which rose to disaster, and Britain was quiet for centuries thereafter (other than some Roman governors who declared themselves Emperor). No province was more Romanized than Britain.

[IronJack]

Her tactics at the final battle were laughably ineffective. The Romans backed into a defile and threw three phalanges of trained legionnaires at the rabble, and cut them to pieces, first with a javelin attack from the high ground, then followed up by a relentless wedge driven deep into their center. They were pushed up against their own wagons and supply train when they tried to run, and the Romans slaughtered them wholesale. Most historians agree that the "sickness" this "noble queen" suffered was poison, taken at her own hand to avoid capture.

Oh, and it should be noted that the Romans were outnumbered at least 8 to 1. Retribution virtually laid waste to East Anglia for the next 10 years.

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