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

Whoa! Not exactly a tactical genius.

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.

12 posted on 05/24/2006 9:41:31 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)

She didn't have 200,000 "soldiers". She had 200,000 warriors.

The Romans had the soldiers and in a formal pitched battle, the odds favor soldiers.

59 posted on 05/31/2006 10:47:02 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)