Posted on 02/07/2008 3:19:53 PM PST by blam
Kind of the female version of Braveheart.
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.”
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.
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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