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I have NEVER understood why the British put a statue of her up, instead of say Cassivellaunus or Caratacus; both of whom led resistance to the Romans, and in the case of Caratacus, a fairly long guerrilla war.

Bouddica, on the other hand, refused to allow the Iceni to plant a crop for the year of her revolt, leaving them to face starvation AND the Roman Army when she lost. Her only allies were the neighboring Trinovanti, and her practice of large scale murder didn't help her win may more allies.

Her strategic vision seemed to be limited to attacking civil centers, and looting [The IXth Legion stumbled into her], and she made no effort to find the bulk of the Roman Army which was in Wales, attacking Mona [the island of Anglesey (p/s ?)]and wiping out the Druids.

As I stated in an earlier post, she let the Romans choose a battlefield that negated her vast superiority in numbers and prevented flanking and envelopment. Her tactical plan went from 'mill around, mill!' to a clusterf*ck charging the best, and most disciplined heavy infantry in the world. She then fled the battlefield, leaving the people she'd taken there to a grisly fate. And the reprisals the Romans exacted on the Iceni, Trinovanti, and any tribe with members that joined her on their own was so severe that Paullinus was subsequently relieved of his command and governorship and recalled to Rome; and Britain never revolted again.

Fan? No.

Heh... or King Arthur for that matter... oh, wait, whomever the character Arthur represented, he was resisting the ancestors of the English, while Boadicea was resisting the Romans. Big difference. ;')

Had someone gotten rid of Nero a little earlier, the Romans were well on their way to conquest of all the British Isles, and I don't doubt that they would have succeeded.

Thanks for those posts.

Like the two people you mention, she was patriot.

She wasn't a soldier and probably wasn't even a warrior herself, but the abuse she and her people suffered unjustly drove her to it.

She deserves a statue as much as the other two, Vincingetorix and Arminius.