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  2. Boudica - Wikipedia

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    Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.

  3. Boadicea and Her Daughters - Wikipedia

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    Boadicea and Her Daughters is a bronze sculptural group in London representing Boudica, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising in Roman Britain.It is located to the north side of the western end of Westminster Bridge, near Portcullis House and Westminster Pier, facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road.

  4. Boudican revolt - Wikipedia

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    The name "Battle Bridge" led to a tradition that this was the site of a major battle between the Romans and the Iceni tribe led by Boudica, [51] but this tradition is not supported by any historical evidence and is rejected by modern historians, although Lewis Spence's 1937 book Boadicea – warrior queen of the Britons went so far as to ...

  5. Venta Icenorum - Wikipedia

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    The town itself was probably laid out, and its first streets metalled, in approximately the first half of the second century. [4] The town, which is mentioned in both the Ravenna Cosmography and the Antonine Itinerary, [5] was a settlement near the village of Caistor St. Edmund, some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of present-day Norwich, and a mile or two from the Bronze Age henge at Arminghall.

  6. Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - Wikipedia

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    The tribes of the south-east took advantage of his absence and staged a revolt, led by queen Boudica of the Iceni. The colonia of Camulodunum ( Colchester ) was destroyed, its inhabitants tortured, raped, and slaughtered, and Petillius Cerialis's legion routed .

  7. List of women warriors in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Boudica was a queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain who led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Ethelfleda (alternative spelling Aethelfled, Æthelfleda, Æthelflæd) (872/879 – 918), Queen of Mercia, called "Lady of the Mercians".

  8. Warrior Queen - Wikipedia

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    Warrior Queen is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV that was broadcast from 20 February to 27 March 1978.. Set in Britain under Roman rule, this historical drama starred Siân Phillips in the title role as Boudica, queen of the Iceni and chronicled her efforts to maintain the peace for her people and fight the Romans.

  9. Bonduca - Wikipedia

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    Bonduca, the queen of the Iceni, gloats over the defeats suffered by the Romans at the hands of her forces.She predicts that the Romans will soon be crushed. Bonduca's confidence is challenged by her general Caratach, who tells her that the Romans are not easily crushed and that the war will be very different from the tribal conflicts they are familiar with.

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