Boadicea May Have Had Her Chips On Site Of McDonald's

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-25-2006 | Nick Britten

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[strongbow]

I lived in a village in Norfolk that produced and excellent ale called Iceni Ale. Boadicea was reputed to have lived in the area. I miss that stuff.

[A message]

Don't mean to be crass but a McBoadicea burger would be sure to bring out the independence minded in all of us.

[308MBR]

So what. This is just another example of how long grumpy, violent and hard headed Celtic women have been around.

It also helps explain the existence of the same characteristics in the males of this ethnic group. It's not so much from genetics, but due to having to live with these women.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I saw an interesting feature on her on cable, it might have been the History Channel.

[Donald Meaker]

Did Boadicea have bodacious buns?

[USNBandit]

Her 200,000 soldiers were annihilated by just 10,000 legionaries, ending the British rebellion.

Whoa! Not exactly a tactical genius.

[PzLdr]

Bouddica's revolt consisted of a large scale raid, the slaughter of large numbers of civilians, the destruction of a part of the IXth Legion "Hispania", her mistaken belief that her rather large band of thugs was an army, her arrogance believing that they could beat a Roman Army,and her stupidity in letting the Romans pick the battlefield. And, oh yeah, the result was delivering Britain to Rome on a plate for the next three centuries.

[Mike Darancette]

Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boadicea

Crazy old white lady ping.

[PzLdr]

She attacked into a geographic funnel, leading her "troops' to jam up at the other end, where the Romans hit them with a few volleys of pila, and then advanced in wedge formation with the short swords.

When the Celts broke and ran, they were blocked in by the wagons [and their families] that Bouddica placed across the mouth of the funnel, behind their initial position. Final score:Rome 80,000 enemy dead; Home team: between 60 and 400 dead Romans. The people the Romans DIDN'T kill [their blood lust was up, so in addition to the 80,000 troops, they did a pretty good job on the civilians] were sold into slavery. Bouddica fled the field, and either killed herself [along with her daughters], or died of disease.

[Brett66]

She should've been in the kitchen instead.

[Centurion2000]

The Queen of the Iceni tribe, the ancient native Britons, had a final showdown with Governor General Suetonius Paulinus in 61 AD. Her 200,000 soldiers were annihilated by just 10,000 legionaries, ending the British rebellion.

Joan of Arc would have wiped the floor with this lady.

[jla]

Jeanne d'Arc had better sponsorship than the pagan-worshipping Celt.

[doberville]

Well put!

[SunkenCiv]

"murdering and raping her family", but not in that order.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[BenLurkin]

She had 200,000 "warriors" but they were defeated by 10,000 Romans?

No wonder she decided to kill herself.

Now, the factual grounds for this author's assertions are quite thin -- and of course this battle covered a lot more ground than one measly McD's. But he can't resist a silly reference to the fast food business as some kind of evil empire. Where do all these dweezly reporters come from?

On thew other hand. If people are going to believe that their franchise is associated with this Celtic heroine, McD's should take full advantage of it and commercialize the association

Maybe have a plastic statue of her sitting next to the one of Ronald McD!

[Pharmboy]

I saw this when it first went up--which motivated me to research the warrior queen. Quite a story, no question. The consensus seems to be that she suffered from overconfidence (she and her army had destroyed towns and beaten Roman soldiers before) and poor battlefield strategic abilities. She no doubt was an effective and charismatic leader who underestimated the well-drilled, professional Roman Army.

[SunkenCiv]

Mead.