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To: blam

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.


9 posted on 05/24/2006 9:31:44 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

Not a fan I take it.


25 posted on 05/25/2006 9:36:41 AM PDT by norton
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So, the Romans didn't slaughter "civilians" in their land-grab in Britain? I'd hardly call her force of troops thugs.

Patriots was more like it. The Romans were the thugs here.

And regardless of the outcome of that battle, the odds were stacked against the Britons. Eventually the Romans would have triumphed due to better training, logistics, strategy and numbers.

But she gave it a good try.


60 posted on 05/31/2006 10:50:00 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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