General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> Boudicca /Boadicca/
Cause of Death:<CAUS> took poison or died of shock in Battle against Romans
According to Glen Ray Crack (http://battle 1066.com/romans3.html):
"On the other side of England, in East Anglia, an event was about to
occur which had momentous repercussios.  What happened is now legend.  A
tribe called the Iceni existed in England at this time.  The tribal king,
a well respected man died or was killed by centurions.  Prior to this, he
had made Emperor Nero godfather to his two daughters, under the premise
that this would offer them some protection.  It did not.  They were raped
and his wife beaten almost to death...There is nothing like a woman
scorned, especially if her name is Boadicea (or Boudicca as she should be
correctly called).  The total outrage caused by the defiling of this
family instigated Britain's version of the killing fields. Up to this
point the Iceni was the largest indigenous tribe in the country and also
one of the least aggressive.  But the events that developed caused
dreadful bloodshed.  Boadicea by default following the death of her
husband, became their queen.  She planned revenge.  Britain was being run
by a force of about 20 to 25 thousand Romans comprising 4 legions...This
was to be the first target of Boadicea and her force."
According to ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY OF MILITARY EVENTS by Richard R.
Orsinger (http://www.txdirect.net/users/rrichard/miltar2.htm): " 61 AD
Excessive Roman depredations drive Britons to revolt under female leader
Boudicca, who captures Camulodunum (Colchester) and slaughters all Romans
and their collaborators, then fights and vanquishes the infantry of the
9th Legion.  When Boudicca marches on Londinium (London), the Roman
commander Suetonius abondons the city, whereupon Boudicca takes the city
and kills all its inhabitants.  Boudicca then marches upon and destroys
Verulamium (St. Albans).  In the three cities, some 70,000 inhabitants
lose their lives.  Suetonius, with 10,000 soldiers meets the Britons in
battle, and the Romans triumph, killing the British soldiers, their women
and children.  Boudicca drinks poison and dies."