Transcript Queen Boudicea-DS and SW - Eckman

• Queen boadicea
Stephen Waugh
derek sheckard
THE STORY OF A WARRIOR QUEEN
• She ruled over that part of the country which Norfolk and Suffolk.
• She was a brave woman and she wasn’t afraid of the romans and she
tried to get back what the romans stole from her
• she wanted to get back at the romans for beating her
• http://womenshistory.about.com/od/boudicca/p/boudicca.htm
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Who is Queen Boudiccia
She was a british celtic warrior queen who led a revolt against the roman
occupation. Queen Boudiccia was the wife of Prasutagus, who was head of
the Iceni tribe in East England, in what is now Norfolk and Suffolk. Boudicca's
army had counted on seizing Roman food stores when the tribes abandoned
their own fields to wage rebellion, but Suetonius had strategically seen to
the burning of the Roman stores.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica/
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WHAT DID QUEEN BOUDICCIA DO?
• The Warrior Queen who fought the might of Rome. And in a way she
did get her revenge, as in 1902 a bronze statue of her riding high in
her chariot. Boadicea then killed herself with poison so she would not
fall into Roman hands. Boadicea's name means victorious or Victoria
and in Victorian times she came to be viewed as a heroic symbol of
Britain.
• http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Boadicea.html
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Queen Boudiccia
• She was huge of frame, terrifying of aspect, and with a harsh voice. A
great mass of bright red hair fell to her knees. She wore a great
twisted golden necklace, and a tunic of many colors, over which was a
thick mantle, fastened by a brooch. She was a Celtic queen, wife, and
mother is destined to remain in the gray shadows of history
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Boadicea.html
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Queen Boudicca’s final battle
• Boudicca's final battlefield is not known with any certainty. The
Roman forces were encouraged to triumph. If they did not, they knew
to expect to be impaled, to look upon their own entrails cut from
their bodies, to be spitted on red-hot skewers, and to be melted in
boiling water. Not a very nice prospect. The Iceni were poorly
equipped and trained, unlike the Romans who had been practicing
the art of death for centuries.
• http://www.whoosh.org/issue28/blanken2.html
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Boudicca's Background
• Boadicea is simply the name given to her by the Roman historian
Tacitus. Written histories of Boadicea, and of early Britain in general,
are found in two classical manuscripts, which were most likely derived
from the same original source.
• The historian Tacitus wrote his history only fifty years after the events
of A.D. 60, and it was said that his father-in-law Agricola was able to
give an eyewitness account of the rebellion.
• http://wordinfo.info/unit/4196/ip:6/il:E
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Warrior Queen of the Iceni
• The exclusion of Boudicca in his will has led historians to speculate
that, even when her husband was still alive, the Iceni queen held
strong anti-Roman views. First, his wife Boudicea was scourged and
his daughters outraged. All the chief men of the Iceni, as if Rome had
received the whole country as a gift
• http://www.livescience.com/37061-boudicca.html
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Boudicca’s success
• Boudicca was helped by the fact that at the time her rebellion was
launched much of the Roman army in Britain was on the Isle of
Anglesey, in Wales, destroying a Druid site at Mona. She raised an
army, gaining supporting from another aggrieved tribe known as the
Trinovantes.
• http://www.livescience.com/37061-boudicca.html
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Queen B
• Boudicca was helped by the fact that at the time her rebellion was
launched much of the Roman army in Britain was on the Isle of
Anglesey, in Wales, destroying a Druid site at Mona. This meant that,
for awhile, the rebels would only encounter small numbers of Roman
troops. After her successes, Dio records, Boudicca’s army had swelled
to 230,000 people, a figure that was probably exaggerated.
• http://www.livescience.com/37061-boudicca.html
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Resource page
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/boudicca/p/boudicca.htm
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica/
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=island&story=boadicea
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Boadicea.html
http://www.whoosh.org/issue28/blanken2.html
http://wordinfo.info/unit/4196/ip:6/il:E
http://www.livescience.com/37061-boudicca.html