Because her only military achievement had been the torture and killing of innocent civilians, that were even Britons for the main part. The only time she faced a real opposition, she led her army in one of the worst military blunders recorded in history, whitout the opponent even having to invent some special tactic.
You had Boudica, Spartacus, Bar Korba and Hannibal from four different time periods commanding armies against the Roman legions and all failed to take down the empire in the end. That shows you how immensely powerful the military might of Rome was.
@@alenimelis4969 then Eastern roman empire took back Italy and carthage from vandals and the Germany teaching them a lesson they will never forget like belisarus took Italy back from German ostrogoth and vandals that what you get when you think you can beat civilization!!
Rome ruled. A two thousand year run is unmatched in history. Not the Persians, not the Chinese, the Romans even continue to this day in the law, the architecture, but most of all in Western Civilization that is its heir, and which even now similarly under attack from barbarians.
@@jrooksable she did lol, the Romans didn't fight in a forest but to their backs to a very thick one so they wouldn't get flanked, she charged the legions uphill into a rain of pila that decimated her Frontline and got counter charged by heavy infantry coming down a slope which is... Yeah... She really wasn't a tactical genius
I live in StAlbans, verulamium ,in Roman times, the old Roman road watling street is directly under many parts of the modern watling street and where it's not under it's by the side, I travel along it most days. it still follows exactly the same route as it did 2000 years ago. There are only a few places the battle could have been that fit the description. It could easily be found if someone funded the money for the archaeologists and equipment needed . But sadly nobody wants to pay/ fund , for historical reasons alone, people want to earn a profit from their money. If I was wealthy I would happily pay to look for the site . Its somewhere around the dunstable area , near to the river for animals and people to drink and the only area with hills and slopes, before and after is quite flat . It has to be close to the chiltern hills / valley. A few miles north of verulamium..
Umm, yes she did lol She did NOT have to face the Romans in that particular area but chose to anyway. The Romans did the equivalent of backing into a doorway and let the horde come at them in basically single file.
And im sure she regretted it as well when a roman general schooled her with an army a fraction of her size. Her greatest accomplishments will always be tarnished by the unnecessary torture of civilians, men women and children alike.
I was an archaeologist for many years in Colchester and the town inside the Roman walls had a layer of black and burned material called the destruction layer. The Iceni and the Trinovantes didn't mess around!
Scots didn't migrate from ulster till the early dark ages. Ancient Caledonians spoke a form of welsh or pictish but there isn't that much information on the picts some think their celts others think they are related to the Basque people
She was emotionally driven by the treatment of Romans for her and her people. The 3 settlements she destroyed were manned by less than 2000 soldiers. She killed mostly civilians. When she face a real Roman army numbered just 10000 despite being having a fairly large army she got defeated. She chose poor battle tactics. She was a brave woman but not a good strategist.
she was winning because she was fighting against lightly guarded civilian populations. retired roman soldiers, old men, women and children, once she ran out of sitting ducks and was forced to fight real roman soldiers, she led her people to the slaughter! the romans were well trained, well armored, highly disciplined and enjoyed superior leadership. boudicca's forces lacked all of these and chose to fight the roman army anyway.
She was winning as long as she was killing defenses civilians... Killed tens of thousands of civilians 😳 She's one of the worst leaders in history. She literally was defeated by an army 10 times smaller than her with her won tactical mistakes. And now all the media is trying to portray her as a hero... Give me a break.
I have always loved the Celts. Their beautiful music, their beliefs and the countries where they frequented. They were the people of legend and mystery. They were a deeply spiritual people who honoured the Earth, the Animals and Women. They also inhabited the British Isles which are some of the most beautiful places of earth such as Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. Stories such as King Arthur came from them. I have always loved the story of Boudicca, the great Iceni Queen who fought for independence from the Romans. She was a great Queen indeed. 🙏 Some of my ancestors were in fact Celts from Scotland and Ireland. They are truly unique from anyone who has come before or since . Our Celtic Pride runs deep in my family.
@@kratosboy5557 Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was born female and has female genitals. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly should play Queen Boudicca in a Boudicca biopic. 🎭🎨🎹🥁🎸
@@kratosboy5557 That's a lie. Romans didn't steal anything. It's because the Romans documented that we even know of these people. If it weren't for the Romans we wouldn't know anything about the Tribes. It's like the Tribe that Prince Philip visited. And showed them pictures. They were amazed. You could see your ancestors. Seeing your ancestors was so important to that tribe and the tribal societies. As the ancestors were the gods. It wasn't like a single god theory. Society started by people burning the fire in the house and that was the fire of the god. Eventually, these got joined into becoming "Roman gods" but they were just noble houses and family fires. The Romans weren't just evil. They were an uplifting society, that uplifted humanity. Rather than tribal fighting. Romans found human sacrifice barbaric. That's what these tribes did.
I don't understand why some people criticize a woman from two thousand years ago, and what she had did like this is a current event. And also comparing Boudicca to Hillary or anybody is absolutely ridiculous! This is a History film for people who are interested in history. The European tribes were sick and tired under Roman rule, and they were not the only ones. The Zealots led by Simon rebelled against Rome. Stop criticizing and learn history.
Anyone who can compare a great warrior queen like Boudicca to some corrupt hack like Hillary Clinton who used her lying, cheating husband for power are morons.
Because the way the story had been told here is ridiculous and has nothing historical in it. Is only pampering the mith of Boudica that had been created in early modern age.
sean sammon ? Ancient armies especially barbarian people cannot manage to assemble or campaign with that much army. Romans always exaggerated their enemies as every other people.
a lot of that had to with the followers, her army got trapped trapped between their own supply line and the roman army, because civilians came out to watch the battle.
They weren't fighting for justice except for Boudicca alone. But as people they fought for there freedom and culture but got defeated and there culture destroyed by the Romans.
Their culture was destroyed by the Romans huh? As Dan Carlin once said...."What language are they speaking in Rome these days...because in parts of Modern day Briton they still speak Gaelic...so it ain't dead yet!"
George Pitsounis yet it was 3 to 1 , because the rest were at the region of londinium, 5 to 1 it will be possible if you include families and children of the rebels, but the proportion only counts the effective warriors
Its said that Boudicca fled from the battle but poisoned herself for suicide a few days later. She could have only of invaded because the roman legion was in campaign in wales at the time. Boudicca also temporarily forced the legion to retreat, massively out numbering the roman army. Paulinus, the governor of Britain and the head of the legion believed he was going to die so he made a speech basically stating if they dont die in battle, they will being tortured. Paulinus then set up a last stand against Boudicca and ends up pulling out a victory after a long day of fighting. If anyone would like me to explain why the romans first came into the iceini after the death of boudicca’s husband i’ll explain because this video skipped over why they went in
Her husband (the king) died and tried to protect his land & family by making his daughters joint heirs with emperor Nero. Believing that that would protect them from Roman predation and his daughters could govern in Nero’s place. Of course, the romans had no respect for women so as far as they were concerned, it was now Nero’s kingdom/land and Boudicca and her daughters could get F’d. (Also, her husband was called Prasutagus.)
Also Tacitus was the son-in-law of the commander of the last battle, so he had a personal reason to talk it up. It's very unlikely the "army" was that large.
If the legends were written by the Romans themselves it could be total garbage. They were probably so embarrassed losing to a tribal woman they had to inflate her army numbers and say she slaughtered her own people to make them seem like the heroes of the hour 🤷♂️
mudkips are life she did she destroyed his saving of the empire after odaenathus had turned down any chance to take it all for himself but she took it for herself and lost
Arminius was different, he lived and learned in Rome, becoming a soldier and knew their tactics, and how to beat them. Giving Rome a defeat so bad that they never recovered from it, stopping Rome from conquering Germania, the rhine river was set as a border.
Actually, her first charge retreated after getting speared to death. However..... Boudicca: What? They've killed my men with spears. Well, instead of changing my plans, i think they should charge in AGAIN!
wow it's almost like that was obviously a metaphor and you took it out of context. Unless you think the "strength of the roman army" is an actual physical thing and not a concept....
I dunno, William Wallace accomplished what she could not even if he also died, dunno why would you want to see William Wallace but with a female lead and ending in failure
For one thing, there was a movie made about Boudicca starring Alex Kingston called Boudicca Warrior Queen in 2003. Secondly, William Wallace and Boudicca aren't in any way comparable, and thirdly, Wallace's efforts didn't do any good in the long run as his execution was followed by two centuries of near-constant conflict with England before it finally fell under the British crown in a political scheme.
@@AverageAlien She destroyed 5 Roman cities and killed everyone in them. Doesn't sound like a joke to me. Also, the army was not all women - that is false.
1:16 How ironic that one day the descendants of Boudica would treat Irish, Scots, Welsh, etc. (as well as their own colonists in America) in this same way.
Read history you fool , Angels/Celts didn't dominate England , it was anglo-saxon & Norman society and lot of angels were already killed and concentrated only to Wales. Also in other fact African slave trade was completely dominated by Jewish slave traders.
I came here from the online game Rise of Kingdoms where Boudica is a popular epic commander. Now I understand why her character in the game have that set of skills and talents. Amazing.
That’s if you believe the Roman’s who essentially claimed 200 Britons died to every Roman. Call me skeptical but I am pretty sure the Romans were exaggerating about numbers. I highly doubt they were outnumbered 5 to 1 in reality.
@@erinroberts711 I do believe they were pretty outnumbered(although Rome has lied about numbers once that I recall from research and left defeats to big to hide with little detail from their writers), the Romans position was a very strong one, and they had superior military equipment and training, although Britians did indeed train and have a form of military discipline, they were much more suited for dueling where strength is matched one on one, a battle takes mind, timing and a connection with the troops, a lot of battles that are now famous victories actually came close to defeat for a a victor, Alexander at Gaugamella and Scipio at Zama both came very close to defeat.
Being part British, Boudica is one of my personal heroines and is a universal human inspiration. While her rebellion failed in the end, she did plant the seed of continued resistance in Britain against imperialist rule.
@@Ghost-vi8qmyour only focusing on one aspect of them, I am proud of their spirit and not giving up to slavery like so many other countries did. And also why is it any of your business why I am proud of them?, am I not allowed to be?, if a black person said that about their ansestory and you only focused on thr enslaved part would u say the same thing? Is is that wrong that I am proud of their strength? Yea they failed but the were braver than u clearly ever will be. Is it wrong? Because I just think frankly your comment is rude and disrespectful to a culture you clearly don't and will never understand or learn to respect
@@panface8477 I see you cannot have s conversation without insulting them personally, so it's you who is being rude. And I know more of the Celts and there history then you think.
Inexperienced. Had she sat back and taken a Look why they won certain battles, then she would have continued on with guerilla tactics jumping out from the forest to attack the Roman army when they were on the march and spread out. This is not the way the Romans fought. When they got out into an open field and the Romans set up their phalanx formation they could not be beaten. Even if you have 5 times the number of attackers. Boudica's forces were just farmers, not a profession army. She lost in the open field by allowing the Romans to pick the spot. I guess there is this pride to fight them head on face to face...rather than sneak attacks. That pride is why they lost. Had they won, then the Romans really would have come back with a bigger force.
And the romans wouldn’t have come back with a bigger army, the British tribes were wild, spread out, and for the most part Britain lacked significant resources that Rome wanted, pushing Britain would have been to much trouble for them and they wouldn’t have fought that hard if she had won. They gave up on Germany after 15,000 casualties
1. The Romans did not fight in phalanx formation. 2. Unless Rome lost an eagle standard, they'd have not gone back. And if they did lose one, they'd only go back to retrieve it. Britain was only conquered because Claudius wanted something behind his name. Nero succeeded Claudius, and by then it was obvious that Britannia was a financial drain on the imperial coffers. Eventually, the Romans did abandon Britannia...for the same reasons Nero wanted to abandon it. Seneca, Nero's mentor, played a big role in these events. Under Claudius, Seneca forced huge loans on the Celts, including the Iceni. Seneca wanted his money back, with interest. The Procurator that had Boudica flogged, was accompanied by thugs, belonging to Seneca. Nero wanted to abandon Britannia, but was convinced otherwise. Julius Ceasar was there a 100 years before and also determined that it was not worth it.
could not be beaten in open field, unless of course their facing horse archers and heavy Calvary then they tended to get smashed. Parthians Sassanid's, Goths to name a few
Your absolutely right, Caratacus spent years fighting the Roman's, attacking in guerrilla style, hit and run , joining with other Celts, including Welsh , where they were based . The only reason the Romans got him was because a norhern queen ,cartimandau ( of the brigante tribe, I believe) drugged his wine and handed him over to the Romans. Caratacus was part of the royal family who ruled the lands of middle Britain, the capital city was verulam ( later called verulamium, by Romans) modern day StAlbans, the city I live in . He's a local hero , but hardly gets mentioned by historians. I'm glad to see someone knows he was far more important than boudicca.
Yasir Iqbal Well no one knows and can't know for sure how she died.If she did fight in the front line then it's more than likely that she fell (quite easily i suspect) in battle
You realise that the majority of people had been oppressed by the romans for years ? They had all their weapons confiscated and were banned from owning them… yet the celts still managed to kill 70000+ romans and burn their 3 biggest towns to the ground… these weren’t soliders filling the ranks of The Celtic queens army they was ordinary people that became tired of being oppressed and stood against their oppressive Roman invaders!
Your now gonna say that to a barbarian that fighting against civilization... boudicca is a barbarian that did nothing but win against small roman troops or citizens but when they meet roman legions face to face even if boudicca outnumbered the romans the legions of rome still win civilization always win against barbarians that are uncivilised
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This documentary embellished a few things from the actual sources in terms of the fates of these Barbarian leaders. Like with Viriathus - this doc showed him stabbed to death whilst overlooking the Iberian lands in his camp when irl he was killed in his sleep.
Tomás Molina this documentary is absolute garbage. It’s an attempt to rewrite the fall of western Rome as some well-deserved impact of a civil rights movement.
If she had been a man, the naysayers in these comments would be telling everyone what a brave hero she was to face the romans despite being outnumbered and them being better equipped. But it was a woman and we can't give women credit for being brave for fighting against the powers that be - especially men. It's amazing how frightened men are, to this day, of strong women. It's kind of pathetic.
I know, right? True she could've used better military tactics at the end. But the fact that she slaughtered 70,000 civilians, and a whole legion to prevent them from rescuing the first 20,000 is no small feat!!!
Well thing is... she lost and she did slaughter innocents. (Fight the power) In the end she failed. Not really a good role model. Now if you would like to learn of a real Queen who was a success I recommend Tomiris/Tomyris of the Scythians. 😉
@@burningman1239 A whole slew of military heroes have lost, but are still celebrated (Leonidas, Hannibal, Spartacus, etc.). And it's a sad fact, but ancient warfare didn't discriminate between soldiers and civilians. Instead of trying to hold them to a 21st century standard, look at what they tried to accomplish, and what they did accomplish regardless of whether or not they ultimately lost. Boudica set out to avenge not just herself but her impoverished people and violated children. She may have gone down in flames, but she gave Rome third degree burns in the process. And besides, various differing accounts exist of the death of Cyrus the Great. And Herodotus is not known for his accuracy.😉
""Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers-they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."- Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman General addressing his legionaries
She slaughter thousands of Celts and destroyed cities without any defense, and also sent to die his army into battle without any tactic, she deserves no respect
It died. Well fell really. After fleeing from their crumbling Western Empire to the Eastern Byzantine Captital in Constantinople they surrended to the Muslims. (watch seige of Constantinople ).
Yes, they were the best at murder, corruption, slavery, theft, oppression, immoral decadent behavior, back-stabbing, civil wars, cruelty, etc. etc. Oh and they were the best at invading others & forcing them into subjugation. Something to be really proud of, in your mind apparently!
Which great nation? Brittain has an Anglo-Saxon culture and Boudica was Celtic who got extinct and replaced by Germanic settlers. These are 2 completely different nations.
A mother that slaughtered defenseless people and destroyed defenseless cities, Boudica was a monster, even worse than the Romans, she sent to die thousand of people becouse she had no tactic and no skill to lead an army
They fought back slaughtering women and children, that's not fighting, that's killing random people just becouse they were romans. When the Romans reorganized and started the real fight we all know how it ended, in the battle of Battle of Watling Street the icens had what they deserved.
British Historian - Boudica's story is one of bravery and standing up against oppression to secure one freedom British Empire - Trying to enslave every nation they encounter after that
@@craigswatching8740 Welsh is a Germanic word in which the invading Anglo Saxons and Jutes called the native Britons. The Welsh call themselves “Cymry” and “Cymru” which comes from the brittonic word “combrogi” which means “citizens” or “fellow countrymen” which is referring themselves as the natives of Britain. All so the word for victory in Welsh is “Buddugolieth” . The British empire was English and the rest were forced to come along.
they sort of forgot to mention that in the final battle (battle for watling street) she outnumbered the romans 20:1, she had all of the odds in her favour, but she still lost.
All asian remake of Space Jam in the final battle the Romans had the strategic advantage she could not fully employ her forces due to forest on both sides
NOT 20:1. Iceni outnumbered them, but many were women and young children and half of her army was not at the final battle, but still in London. And the men who fought were untrained famers. They did well considered the organized and trained Romans.
Iceni (Eye-Say-Nee). One of the most remarkable events in British history and the Roman Empire that has never been told in a blockbuster, Gladiator, style movie. Come on Ridley Scott.
@@salmanatiki314 It's their tribal name. The Iceni, also known as the Eceni, were a Celtic tribe based in what is now Norfolk, north-western Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire in south east England. There were numerous Celtic tribes in Britain at the time of the Roman occupation. The Caledones, Damnonii, Belgae and Brigantes were some of the more than 20 British tribes.
The Problem was she got over confident and believed she could beat the Romans in open field warfare. If she would of kept up her Guerrilla tactics she might of eventually pushed the Romans out of Britain.
@@alynwillams4297 Yeah she choose pitched battel against much better trained army on poorly chosen field and that caused huge rout and mass killing of her people. She Should have chosen similar tactics of Arminius and Viriathus
i think she won some battles because she only encountered roman vigiles units or town watch,, but she was utterly defeated sadly when she faced a real roman legion just like spartacus. its like having to fight cities defended by the national guard but then boom the rangers and the marines arrived. so yeah.
RAJU PEDDADA Romans fled from them in 500AD remaining Italians [ their descendants make up 1million British people today in the UK ] the Roman Italians helped native Britons fight the Angles,Jutes,and Saxons. this fight was pointless for a number of reasons one being the Germanics had superior Numbers. The Italians and Britons claimed to be Romans and used Roman tactics and Armour [ I own some Roman Armour and weapons along with my Turkish and Greek]. These Romans made brave but ultimately futile Resistance against their Germanic Enemy who shown very little Mercy. They fought for a while but ultimately crushed and overwhelmed. The Anglo Saxons would go to become the dominant Genetic Group of the English and Scottish. The remaining Britons [ Bretons] fled to Wales [ Wales meaning stranger ]. The others submitted to their new Rulers in hopes of being spared that failed mostly. Anglo Saxon Kings and Queens fought badly and were disunited states. Native Briton Males didn't breed well [ R1a and R1b] in England. I1a is dominant in England comes from IJ which comes from the Middle East. I1a went to North Europe I2a went to SouthEast Europe and Balkans. J1 stayed home J2 went to Greece and Spain and Portugal And Italy and Algeria and Tunisia and Egypt.
There's a lot of ways the Britons could have won. The Romans only had so many troops in Britain. Provided they avoided pitched battles the Britons could have over time worn the Romans down. Denying the Romans food would be the best way. Like Obi-Wan said: there are alternatives to fighting.
@@joebloggs5318 it's too easy to assault and destroy three cityes without walls and soldiers and kill 70,000 innocent Roman civilians. Boudicca had 230,000 warriors and she lost against 10,000 Roman legionaires, so she isn't a especially a genious. She was a fool
@@sergius9571 Yeah like I said the Britons could have won in a lot of ways, not necessarily with Boudicca in charge. Sadly feminists really push Boudicca as some icon so there's this myth of her being a military genius. It takes little brains to throw a mob at your enemies and hope for the best.
She was not going to be made a trophy of her enemies and chose to deny Rome the ultimate victory of dragging her in a triumph parade and execute her publicly. Boudica went down on her own terms as a free person.
It's ironic how they are talk about Boudica and Injustice, when centuries later they became The Roman in India and Rani Lakshmibaii happened. Anyway Boudica was seriously inspiring. More power to Women.
Arindam Kaushik that's like over a thousand years, you know after the dark ages. Those colonists are not likely even be related to her it's been so many generations.
To Justice Rule She was not Norman. The 1st century predates Frankish rule by some 400 years. So as Normans were part Frankish then no way could Boudicca be Norman.
There is an evil that has weaved it's way across the planet over thousands of years and worked through many nations: Greece, Rome, UK, US (etc. etc.)- I don't believe it's the nation people themselves but an evil force that works through them. It's aim is to kill the human spirit and create subservience. It has been very successful. A native American I know had visions of the 'witch trials' (another made up tool for torture, fear, division and separation). In a talk she honoured the ancestors of the Europeans for resisting and holding out for so long and explained 'because when they were done with you, they came for me'. Our current rulers have a corporate logo and they are assisted by governments in their rule.
@@alynwillams4297 That makes zero sense seeing as both the Welsh and Angles originate from Central Europe. The Welsh arrived in 600BC in the form of Beaker people. Boudicca was Iceni. They spoke a Germanic language. They couldn’t have been more unlike what eventually become the Welsh.
@@76Gazz the Welsh were Hunter gatherers who got cut off from the rest of Europe after the last ice age. Recent study by Oxford university all so shows that the Welsh have a different genetic make up of those from England, Scotland and Ireland and can hold claim to being the natives of Britain. All so the name Boudicca is still used in Welsh it’s “buddugoliaeth” which means Victory. The iceni were a Brythonic tribe which would of spoke an older version of what we now call Welsh. Welsh being a Germanic word in which the invaders called the native Britons.
@@alynwillams4297 The Welsh didn’t exist during the time of the the Hunter Gatherers. The Celtic Tribes of Central Europe who migrated to the British Isles bringing Bronze Age technology left skeletal remains of individuals all over Britain and have a very different DNA profile to remains found of those before them. So the Celts cannot claim to be the original inhabitants of Britain for the life of them. Four differing tribes settled in Wales. Demetae and Silures in the south and Deceangli and Ordovices in the north. Each tribe with their own Royal Family, priests and rituals. In what is now England was experiencing the very same thing. Wales only exists because the Romans couldn’t be bothered with invading the highlands of Britain. It’s true that the Welsh are all that is left of those Celtic cultures and the Welsh language is the oldest in Europe. But none of the people that live currently on the British Isles can claim to be the true inhabitants.
Found boudica tomb in ac valhalla. But she was not blond. 😂 Red hair with long hair. Because when the assassin had the vision of her, we saw her blond. At the same time, I was so happy to see her that, I saw in real life a figure with a dress and red long hair, she was warmly smiling at me. And '' took me '' in her arms. After I found a round circular structures already in ruins. I didn't know what it was but that's how celtic people used to burry their lost ones. And I heard her saying '' there's nothing left of our sepultures. '' she was watching le playing. Love her so much 🩸
Putting carriages behind the battle preventing a retreat is definitely military genius btw her pitched battle win rate is 50% and her main tactic was basically numbers
I see the shaming language in this thread. I'm not going to drag the book out, but i remember Gibbon in his first volume, making note of the Romans and 7 centuries of training and strategy, which would fall about this time if you count the pre-republic period. They were unstoppable. I have no mercy for Rome. They enslaved and forced the Brythonic peoples to dig the copper out of their own lands. At one point in history, there were as many slaves as free people in Rome. Gibbons also said that slavery allowed them to gain vast amounts of gold and metal for weapons and armor. I can sleep easier knowing that Alaric, the great Gothic king, sacked Rome twice and humbled that arrogant race. The Mistress of the Mediterranean drew the ire of many oppressed peoples.
Alaric was impressive in his feats, I agree. He brought Rome to its knees, which was poetic justice. The Romans, despite their superior technology & military might, were a cruel, violent, sadistic, corrupt & greedy society that only sought power by oppressing & stealing from others. That is the historical truth. Rome didn't deserve the mercy which Alaric showed it. He could have razed Rome to the ground but he didn't. Either way, his sack of Rome was the beginning of the end of the empire. By the way, Alaric, though considered a "germanic" Goth, was actually born in the Danube Delta, part of the old kingdom of the Getae. I believe that the Goths were related to the Getae, perhaps they were ethnic Getae themselves. There are numerous historical sources that confirm this relationship between the Goths & Getae. It's still of course a controversial subject, but one that is fascinating & worth researching.
Not meaning to burst your bubble or anything, but how can she be part of your family tree ? Nobody knows anything about her, or which tribe she came from before marrying the Iceni king ? ..tribes , like kings throughout history, married their daughters to kings who ruled other land, to make alliances. Not for love ..
@@kevwhufc8640 That's very true, the further back a person goes the harder it is to trust what is/isn't legit. Just thought it was neat, otherwise I would have likely never heard of her.
Half of these comments are literally criticizing the way she fought from their comfortable little couch/bed/whatever nice surface the time you live in grants you. I doubt y'all would have done any better no matter how much you think you would have
Why has there not yet been a big budget movie about Boudica?
Nomoredrama2000 bc it was too short.
Because her only military achievement had been the torture and killing of innocent civilians, that were even Britons for the main part. The only time she faced a real opposition, she led her army in one of the worst military blunders recorded in history, whitout the opponent even having to invent some special tactic.
The Eagle (2011)?
Gazzara5 why lol?
There is Movie done it's pretty cool.
She didn't die in battle, she escaped and poisoned herself because she said "I don't want to die by the hands of Rome".
Or something like that
We don’t really know there are these two possibilities
According to the Romans. They’re the only record we have on Boudicca. Not exactly a reliable source. We don’t know how she died.
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We only have 2 sources on Boudica, both roman so we really don't know, but according to them she poisoned herself
You had Boudica, Spartacus, Bar Korba and Hannibal from four different time periods commanding armies against the Roman legions and all failed to take down the empire in the end. That shows you how immensely powerful the military might of Rome was.
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then Germania came and sieged Rome to the point where Rome kneeled and fell.
@@alenimelis4969 then Eastern roman empire took back Italy and carthage from vandals and the Germany teaching them a lesson they will never forget like belisarus took Italy back from German ostrogoth and vandals that what you get when you think you can beat civilization!!
@@alenimelis4969 As if Rome wasn't being threatened from all sides
Rome ruled. A two thousand year run is unmatched in history. Not the Persians, not the Chinese, the Romans even continue to this day in the law, the architecture, but most of all in Western Civilization that is its heir, and which even now similarly under attack from barbarians.
Bar Korba?
Gaelic is a language still spoken. My Great Grandfather (Died in 2002) spoke it as a FIRST language.
We are still here.
Galic , A first language, spoken where ?
Wales ? Ireland ?
Certainly not in England. Or Scotland.
@@kevwhufc8640 Cape Breton, In Canada.
@@kgm4556 ok , that makes sense, I think at least half the population was & is French ancestry.
@@kevwhufc8640 Part of the Island is. The other part is Gaelic. Really cool Island, lots of history.
She didn’t run headlong into a legion. The Romans fought in a forest to stop them from using their chariots which helped break Roman formation.
Strategy vs mindless barbaric tribe
@@AverageAlien:I think his point was Boudica DIDN'T rush headlong into the Romans!😳
@@jrooksable she did lol, the Romans didn't fight in a forest but to their backs to a very thick one so they wouldn't get flanked, she charged the legions uphill into a rain of pila that decimated her Frontline and got counter charged by heavy infantry coming down a slope which is... Yeah... She really wasn't a tactical genius
I live in StAlbans, verulamium ,in Roman times, the old Roman road watling street is directly under many parts of the modern watling street and where it's not under it's by the side, I travel along it most days.
it still follows exactly the same route as it did 2000 years ago.
There are only a few places the battle could have been that fit the description.
It could easily be found if someone funded the money for the archaeologists and equipment needed .
But sadly nobody wants to pay/ fund , for historical reasons alone, people want to earn a profit from their money.
If I was wealthy I would happily pay to look for the site .
Its somewhere around the dunstable area , near to the river for animals and people to drink and the only area with hills and slopes, before and after is quite flat .
It has to be close to the chiltern hills / valley. A few miles north of verulamium..
Umm, yes she did lol She did NOT have to face the Romans in that particular area but chose to anyway. The Romans did the equivalent of backing into a doorway and let the horde come at them in basically single file.
Where’s her “Disney Princess/Queen Movie?”
I think Disney should make the movie about her, it will be brave and cool
Mogie Bridgette no where because she sucked
Brave?
Mogie Bridgette Celtic Queen/ Princess for Disney... Merida . Boudica, eh , idk .
@@YesJustTia Ah yes, leading 200,000 to their deaths is so brave
best line in the series
"you will regret making enemies of us"
Same goes for her speech before Paulinus's legion.
And im sure she regretted it as well when a roman general schooled her with an army a fraction of her size.
Her greatest accomplishments will always be tarnished by the unnecessary torture of civilians, men women and children alike.
This quote is how I live my life 😂
"You will regret making enemies of us" *crumbles instantly as soon as she starts fighting soldiers instead of slaughtering civillians.
@@jamesshore3191they was traitors not civilians..
I just realise Lexa's character must have been strongly inspired by Boudica
i've been saying this since ages and i love it
Dead in live yeah and what weird is the alecia Debnam Carey and this woman look very similar
wtf I didn't see this earlier
Dead in live , Yes! In 2:46 look at how similar they look!
Boudica inspired many female roles
God, I love anything associated with the celts or Celtic myths
GameB Awesome these were druids
Druids are Celtic
eww
Druid is a term for a priest, not the name for a tribe.
And the druids mostly lived in Anglesey, not the East.
History tells us that it isn't safe to be a naive civilian
I was an archaeologist for many years in Colchester and the town inside the Roman walls had a layer of black and burned material called the destruction layer. The Iceni and the Trinovantes didn't mess around!
And the Romans don’t mess around either!
Ancient Britons: "We must drive away these Romans that conquered our lands!"
Ancient Scots: "... you got conquered?"
We will build a wall and make the Scott's pay for it
scots ARE britons....there both the same thing just different cultures
They was all ancient Britons dummy
Scots didn't migrate from ulster till the early dark ages. Ancient Caledonians spoke a form of welsh or pictish but there isn't that much information on the picts some think their celts others think they are related to the Basque people
9th legion??
She was emotionally driven by the treatment of Romans for her and her people. The 3 settlements she destroyed were manned by less than 2000 soldiers. She killed mostly civilians. When she face a real Roman army numbered just 10000 despite being having a fairly large army she got defeated. She chose poor battle tactics. She was a brave woman but not a good strategist.
@@alenimelis4969 ofcourse i agree with you. I am just saying she went right into roman trap and it wss a big mistake.. 😊
BBTGTG
I would use The Roman Citizens as hostages and make Rome leave giving some hostages while keeping others in slavery.
Is it really brave to send other people to their deaths
@@FartsmellahashsellaYea she is brave.Had her horde murder innocents and then send them to their death aganist 10 times smaller army
There is a saying about bravery in my country “there is really little difference between bravery and foolishness”
She was winning as long as she fights gurella style, one she goes face to face fighting, she was defeated.
she was winning because she was fighting against lightly guarded civilian populations.
retired roman soldiers, old men, women and children, once she ran out of sitting ducks and was forced to fight real roman soldiers, she led her people to the slaughter!
the romans were well trained, well armored, highly disciplined and enjoyed superior leadership. boudicca's forces lacked all of these and chose to fight the roman army anyway.
@@sixmax11 true but you gotta respect how effective she was
@@billclark5055 Laughs in Legio XIV Gemina
They should've stuck to fighting that way. They could've forced Rome out.
She was winning as long as she was killing defenses civilians... Killed tens of thousands of civilians 😳
She's one of the worst leaders in history. She literally was defeated by an army 10 times smaller than her with her won tactical mistakes.
And now all the media is trying to portray her as a hero... Give me a break.
I have always loved the Celts. Their beautiful music, their beliefs and the countries where they frequented. They were the people of legend and mystery. They were a deeply spiritual people who honoured the Earth, the Animals and Women. They also inhabited the British Isles which are some of the most beautiful places of earth such as Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. Stories such as King Arthur came from them. I have always loved the story of Boudicca, the great Iceni Queen who fought for independence from the Romans. She was a great Queen indeed. 🙏 Some of my ancestors were in fact Celts from Scotland and Ireland. They are truly unique from anyone who has come before or since . Our Celtic Pride runs deep in my family.
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was born female and has female genitals. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly should play Queen Boudicca in a Boudicca biopic. 🎭🎨🎹🥁🎸
As a Celtic person yeah our ancestors music and culture was fantastic to bad the Romans stole it from us
@@kratosboy5557 Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was born female and has female genitals. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly should play Queen Boudicca in a Boudicca biopic. 🎭🎨🎹🥁🎸
@@kratosboy5557 That's a lie. Romans didn't steal anything. It's because the Romans documented that we even know of these people. If it weren't for the Romans we wouldn't know anything about the Tribes. It's like the Tribe that Prince Philip visited. And showed them pictures. They were amazed. You could see your ancestors. Seeing your ancestors was so important to that tribe and the tribal societies. As the ancestors were the gods. It wasn't like a single god theory. Society started by people burning the fire in the house and that was the fire of the god. Eventually, these got joined into becoming "Roman gods" but they were just noble houses and family fires. The Romans weren't just evil. They were an uplifting society, that uplifted humanity. Rather than tribal fighting. Romans found human sacrifice barbaric. That's what these tribes did.
@@kashfiaislam9995our day will come, the celtic otherworld awaits surpassers and traitors..
I don't understand why some people criticize a woman from two thousand years ago, and what she had did like this is a current event. And also comparing Boudicca to Hillary or anybody is absolutely ridiculous! This is a History film for people who are interested in history. The European tribes were sick and tired under Roman rule, and they were not the only ones. The Zealots led by Simon rebelled against Rome. Stop criticizing and learn history.
No, she just wanted revenge.
Anyone who can compare a great warrior queen like Boudicca to some corrupt hack like Hillary Clinton who used her lying, cheating husband for power are morons.
Because the way the story had been told here is ridiculous and has nothing historical in it. Is only pampering the mith of Boudica that had been created in early modern age.
The Beast 5 to 1... Those numbers are roman exaggeration nothing more..
sean sammon ? Ancient armies especially barbarian people cannot manage to assemble or campaign with that much army. Romans always exaggerated their enemies as every other people.
Boudica = First Class Military Mind
>Has an army of 60,000+ > Loses vs an army of 10,000-
FiRsT cLaSs MiLiTaRy MiNd
Well, the Romans were an insanely good army, and they had the Roman Square. Barbarians like Boudica had no chance of penetrating the Roman Square.
a lot of that had to with the followers, her army got trapped trapped between their own supply line and the roman army, because civilians came out to watch the battle.
She destroyed the 9th Legion and then Suetonius came back with the 14th.
I read in peter ackroyd that she had an army of a 100000
When they were fighting guerilla style they were winning but once she went into open battle with the Romans they never stood a chance
"1st rate military mind" LOL .Simply charging the romans head on and getting her army butchered is having a 1st rate military mind?
Well said.
It's commmon sense really :P
George Pitsounis ;; Madness as you know is a lot like gravity,all it takes is a little push
wtf there is no need for a force to be applied for gravity to take it's course
Jarhead WhiskeyTango this escaped from history to physics Gg xd
The thing is how can you claim fighting for justice if you also massacre 70.000 innocent civillians in cold blood?
Dombaili they where Roman invaders.what's the use in driving the legions out if the citizens of rome are still there
They weren't fighting for justice except for Boudicca alone. But as people they fought for there freedom and culture but got defeated and there culture destroyed by the Romans.
70,000 isn't close to what the Romans did to them
Settler colonialists aren't civilians. They're the support structure for an invasion at best and genocide at worst.
Their culture was destroyed by the Romans huh? As Dan Carlin once said...."What language are they speaking in Rome these days...because in parts of Modern day Briton they still speak Gaelic...so it ain't dead yet!"
“It not about the money, it’s about sending a message”
Shireen Baratheon has seen better days haha
thats what i thought !XD
badfoody she always gets the short end of the stick.
"Achieved the almost impossible"? She slaughtered defenseless cities and an untrained legion.
Ditz.
No, Her army molded the 9° legion in an ambush. The 9° were a shock troop
the 9th ?Just stop please :P There is a huge gap in time over here.Her army was butchered by 10000 romans who were outnumbered at least 5 to 1
George Pitsounis yet it was 3 to 1 , because the rest were at the region of londinium, 5 to 1 it will be possible if you include families and children of the rebels, but the proportion only counts the effective warriors
ZsaZsa InTheShire Seperate because of what exactly?
princess shireen!!! I love all those great GoT characters in this!
Haha yup
Daaim son
anybody else see allister thorn
Also look for Merryn Trant, Dickon Tarly, Barristan Selmy.
0:05 - Dim Dalba, wildling elder
Its said that Boudicca fled from the battle but poisoned herself for suicide a few days later. She could have only of invaded because the roman legion was in campaign in wales at the time. Boudicca also temporarily forced the legion to retreat, massively out numbering the roman army. Paulinus, the governor of Britain and the head of the legion believed he was going to die so he made a speech basically stating if they dont die in battle, they will being tortured. Paulinus then set up a last stand against Boudicca and ends up pulling out a victory after a long day of fighting.
If anyone would like me to explain why the romans first came into the iceini after the death of boudicca’s husband i’ll explain because this video skipped over why they went in
I would like to know.
It's been 4 years
Could you explain to me please and could you mention her husband’s name please
Her husband (the king) died and tried to protect his land & family by making his daughters joint heirs with emperor Nero. Believing that that would protect them from Roman predation and his daughters could govern in Nero’s place.
Of course, the romans had no respect for women so as far as they were concerned, it was now Nero’s kingdom/land and Boudicca and her daughters could get F’d.
(Also, her husband was called Prasutagus.)
Everyone must remember that Cassius and Tacitus were Greek and Romans, thus having very biased opinions on Boudicca and her strategies.
Also Tacitus was the son-in-law of the commander of the last battle, so he had a personal reason to talk it up. It's very unlikely the "army" was that large.
And this show is british, hence you don't hear them talk about boudiccas torturing and killing of thousands of civilians.
@@echelonanglo2226 Besides the part where she clearly sets fire to a building with people inside?
If the legends were written by the Romans themselves it could be total garbage. They were probably so embarrassed losing to a tribal woman they had to inflate her army numbers and say she slaughtered her own people to make them seem like the heroes of the hour 🤷♂️
No doubts the Romans embellished a lot....
Boudica wasn't the only one, Zenobia Queen of Palmyra fought against the Romans too since 270 to 273...
kaiba2099ify failed miserably
@@thomasprent2179 yeah not to mention that she was fighting for a claimant to the Imperial throne...
She technically reversed all the good thing her husband did if im not mistaken
mudkips are life she did she destroyed his saving of the empire after odaenathus had turned down any chance to take it all for himself but she took it for herself and lost
Jackson Brannon ye i destroyed her faction in rome 2
Arminius was different, he lived and learned in Rome, becoming a soldier and knew their tactics, and how to beat them.
Giving Rome a defeat so bad that they never recovered from it, stopping Rome from conquering Germania, the rhine river was set as a border.
"..rushing HEADLONG into the romans"... yeah, that´s what a "first class military mind" looks like! :D
and thats what got her army killed
Actually, her first charge retreated after getting speared to death. However.....
Boudicca: What? They've killed my men with spears. Well, instead of changing my plans, i think they should charge in AGAIN!
wow it's almost like that was obviously a metaphor and you took it out of context. Unless you think the "strength of the roman army" is an actual physical thing and not a concept....
@@ABCD-xg6nr Why are her gods false??😂
Maybe something happened and the Romans forced her ro directly engage them. That's why it's the last battle she needed to free Britian.
The actress playing boudicca is beautiful
The quintessential spirit of the mother and a mother's love!
The Brits have Boudicca, the French have Joan of Arc, the Angolans have Nzinga and the Indians have Rani Laxmi Bai 👍
And Brazilians have Maria Quitéria
Boudicca: *REVOLTS
Paulinus: I'm gonna stop you right there
Someone should make a film on Boudicca's rebellion. That would be epic!
I dunno, William Wallace accomplished what she could not even if he also died, dunno why would you want to see William Wallace but with a female lead and ending in failure
For one thing, there was a movie made about Boudicca starring Alex Kingston called Boudicca Warrior Queen in 2003. Secondly, William Wallace and Boudicca aren't in any way comparable, and thirdly, Wallace's efforts didn't do any good in the long run as his execution was followed by two centuries of near-constant conflict with England before it finally fell under the British crown in a political scheme.
From the Roman perspective it would be a comedy. From the celtic perspective...a tragedy
@@Rinasan28 William Wallace had more success than Boudicca ever could have. Her army was mostly women. A joke. Easily crushed
@@AverageAlien She destroyed 5 Roman cities and killed everyone in them. Doesn't sound like a joke to me. Also, the army was not all women - that is false.
1:16 How ironic that one day the descendants of Boudica would treat Irish, Scots, Welsh, etc. (as well as their own colonists in America) in this same way.
Boudicca was Welsh.
Read history you fool , Angels/Celts didn't dominate England , it was anglo-saxon & Norman society and lot of angels were already killed and concentrated only to Wales. Also in other fact African slave trade was completely dominated by Jewish slave traders.
@@gmr1111Did not know Celts were angels.
I came here from the online game Rise of Kingdoms where Boudica is a popular epic commander. Now I understand why her character in the game have that set of skills and talents. Amazing.
Well I can tell u she wasnt amazing irl
Maybe you should not get information from games solely
To those of the descent of the originals of the Isles, i say:
All Hail, our Queen Mother,! May the spirit of our ancestors live in our hearts.
Aho
I love her spirit.
RIP My dearest 46th Great-Grandmother... Your name lives on.
Outnumbers Romans by 5 to 1
Gets defeated
"First grade military mind" lol wut
Nope...there was a bandwagon of civilians with her. .
the numbers dont include the civilian logistics,
That’s if you believe the Roman’s who essentially claimed 200 Britons died to every Roman.
Call me skeptical but I am pretty sure the Romans were exaggerating about numbers. I highly doubt they were outnumbered 5 to 1 in reality.
@earaza not necessarily like defeat in detail strategy
@@erinroberts711 I do believe they were pretty outnumbered(although Rome has lied about numbers once that I recall from research and left defeats to big to hide with little detail from their writers), the Romans position was a very strong one, and they had superior military equipment and training, although Britians did indeed train and have a form of military discipline, they were much more suited for dueling where strength is matched one on one, a battle takes mind, timing and a connection with the troops, a lot of battles that are now famous victories actually came close to defeat for a a victor, Alexander at Gaugamella and Scipio at Zama both came very close to defeat.
Being part British, Boudica is one of my personal heroines and is a universal human inspiration. While her rebellion failed in the end, she did plant the seed of continued resistance in Britain against imperialist rule.
This video is biased
@@Vazel I can see why you think that and you are entitled to your own opinion as anyone else.
Ironic considering the british empire
@@benyaminyaphiliandro2032 True.
you sound really soy, just thought I'd let you know that
I'm so proud of my Celtic ansestory 💚
What's there to be proud about? 90% of Celtic tribes were wiped out by enslavement and assimilation by the Romans.
@@Ghost-vi8qmyour only focusing on one aspect of them, I am proud of their spirit and not giving up to slavery like so many other countries did. And also why is it any of your business why I am proud of them?, am I not allowed to be?, if a black person said that about their ansestory and you only focused on thr enslaved part would u say the same thing? Is is that wrong that I am proud of their strength? Yea they failed but the were braver than u clearly ever will be. Is it wrong? Because I just think frankly your comment is rude and disrespectful to a culture you clearly don't and will never understand or learn to respect
@@panface8477 I see you cannot have s conversation without insulting them personally, so it's you who is being rude. And I know more of the Celts and there history then you think.
@@Ghost-vi8qm I was insulting u cause u insulted me. And what you said acctually really hurt me so I think my response was valid
@@panface8477 I did not insult you, I was stating a fact. So stop being a whiny sissy and grow up! Now I insulted you!
I like the way she took revanche! Boudicca, what a warrior queen! My absolut favorit in history!
You should learn about Tomyris.
Inexperienced. Had she sat back and taken a Look why they won certain battles, then she would have continued on with guerilla tactics jumping out from the forest to attack the Roman army when they were on the march and spread out. This is not the way the Romans fought. When they got out into an open field and the Romans set up their phalanx formation they could not be beaten. Even if you have 5 times the number of attackers. Boudica's forces were just farmers, not a profession army. She lost in the open field by allowing the Romans to pick the spot. I guess there is this pride to fight them head on face to face...rather than sneak attacks. That pride is why they lost. Had they won, then the Romans really would have come back with a bigger force.
Though if she continued her tactics after that, we may see second Teutoburg.
Sorry, but the phalanx was mainly used by the greeks, at this time, no romans used a phalanx. They fought in a wedge formation
And the romans wouldn’t have come back with a bigger army, the British tribes were wild, spread out, and for the most part Britain lacked significant resources that Rome wanted, pushing Britain would have been to much trouble for them and they wouldn’t have fought that hard if she had won. They gave up on Germany after 15,000 casualties
1. The Romans did not fight in phalanx formation.
2. Unless Rome lost an eagle standard, they'd have not gone back. And if they did lose one, they'd only go back to retrieve it.
Britain was only conquered because Claudius wanted something behind his name. Nero succeeded Claudius, and by then it was obvious that Britannia was a financial drain on the imperial coffers.
Eventually, the Romans did abandon Britannia...for the same reasons Nero wanted to abandon it. Seneca, Nero's mentor, played a big role in these events.
Under Claudius, Seneca forced huge loans on the Celts, including the Iceni. Seneca wanted his money back, with interest. The Procurator that had Boudica flogged, was accompanied by thugs, belonging to Seneca. Nero wanted to abandon Britannia, but was convinced otherwise.
Julius Ceasar was there a 100 years before and also determined that it was not worth it.
could not be beaten in open field, unless of course their facing horse archers and heavy Calvary then they tended to get smashed. Parthians Sassanid's, Goths to name a few
And yet everyone has forgotten about Caractacus who led a 7-year guerilla campaign against the Romans.
Your absolutely right, Caratacus spent years fighting the Roman's, attacking in guerrilla style, hit and run , joining with other Celts, including Welsh , where they were based .
The only reason the Romans got him was because a norhern queen ,cartimandau ( of the brigante tribe, I believe) drugged his wine and handed him over to the Romans.
Caratacus was part of the royal family who ruled the lands of middle Britain, the capital city was verulam ( later called verulamium, by Romans) modern day StAlbans, the city I live in .
He's a local hero , but hardly gets mentioned by historians.
I'm glad to see someone knows he was far more important than boudicca.
Wtf I thought that Boudica killed herself by eating on poison berries. Never heard of her getting killed in battle.
Yasir Iqbal Well no one knows and can't know for sure how she died.If she did fight in the front line then it's more than likely that she fell (quite easily i suspect) in battle
Her fate is like that of Spartacus. No one saw them die so its assumed they either died in battle or survived but died shortly afterwards
She was a coward
@@sergius9571
She lead the charged against Rome. You are uneducated.
@@animationdramanation5730 hahahaha, but she failed. DEFEATED by less than 10.000 Roman soldiers.
Leather scale armour...why? Just, why?
that feeling when you outnumber a foreign legion severely, but you dont know the concept of training your troops so you lose anyway.
Lol
Wahmen for you
You realise that the majority of people had been oppressed by the romans for years ? They had all their weapons confiscated and were banned from owning them… yet the celts still managed to kill 70000+ romans and burn their 3 biggest towns to the ground… these weren’t soliders filling the ranks of The Celtic queens army they was ordinary people that became tired of being oppressed and stood against their oppressive Roman invaders!
I am Irish, Scottish celt and live in England , I love this woman
I barely learned about her yesterday and I'm already a fan of her's
She was brave, but tooo suipid.
Wasn't brave at all
she was very brave lady i am impressed his personality
Boudicca is always depicted as a beautiful powerful, strong, mature woman.
LOOOOOL simp
Your now gonna say that to a barbarian that fighting against civilization... boudicca is a barbarian that did nothing but win against small roman troops or citizens but when they meet roman legions face to face even if boudicca outnumbered the romans the legions of rome still win civilization always win against barbarians that are uncivilised
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was born female and has female genitals. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly should play Queen Boudicca in a Boudicca biopic. 🎭🎨🎹🥁🎸
She is a good inspiration for all women. Because she shows that women have teeth like a wolf🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺, the strenght of a bear 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻and the claws of a lion🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 that can kill the most hardest beings in the world. So all evil people watch out!!!!Roar!!!!!!!!!!!🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 Howl!!!!!!!!!🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺Growl!!!!!!!!!!🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
I thought Boudicca died by being cornered in the final battle and drinking poison choosing to take her own life instead of being taken prisoner.
Tooky history?😃😃😃
This documentary embellished a few things from the actual sources in terms of the fates of these Barbarian leaders. Like with Viriathus - this doc showed him stabbed to death whilst overlooking the Iberian lands in his camp when irl he was killed in his sleep.
Tomás Molina this documentary is absolute garbage. It’s an attempt to rewrite the fall of western Rome as some well-deserved impact of a civil rights movement.
If she had been a man, the naysayers in these comments would be telling everyone what a brave hero she was to face the romans despite being outnumbered and them being better equipped. But it was a woman and we can't give women credit for being brave for fighting against the powers that be - especially men. It's amazing how frightened men are, to this day, of strong women. It's kind of pathetic.
I know, right? True she could've used better military tactics at the end. But the fact that she slaughtered 70,000 civilians, and a whole legion to prevent them from rescuing the first 20,000 is no small feat!!!
Well thing is... she lost and she did slaughter innocents. (Fight the power) In the end she failed. Not really a good role model.
Now if you would like to learn of a real Queen who was a success I recommend Tomiris/Tomyris of the Scythians. 😉
@@burningman1239 A whole slew of military heroes have lost, but are still celebrated (Leonidas, Hannibal, Spartacus, etc.). And it's a sad fact, but ancient warfare didn't discriminate between soldiers and civilians. Instead of trying to hold them to a 21st century standard, look at what they tried to accomplish, and what they did accomplish regardless of whether or not they ultimately lost. Boudica set out to avenge not just herself but her impoverished people and violated children. She may have gone down in flames, but she gave Rome third degree burns in the process.
And besides, various differing accounts exist of the death of Cyrus the Great. And Herodotus is not known for his accuracy.😉
But she wasn't brave for attacking "despite being outnumbered". SHE, outnumbered the Romans 10-1.
""Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers-they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."- Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman General addressing his legionaries
True words
Imagine what it must have been to live in these times
Fantastic
Absolutely awful.
@@Tarkus-Ivalice-dweller Absolutely brilliant
not boring
25 years service to the legion you get house with running clean water IF YOU LIVE THAT LONG 😂
Respect for this woman.
Купрат Хирешев
Not just a woman....
A Legend warrior as well...
Boudica the great
She slaughter thousands of Celts and destroyed cities without any defense, and also sent to die his army into battle without any tactic, she deserves no respect
Is the historical evidence for Boudicca killing her own people?
Сашук - Флагеллум Дей Yes, in the cities she sacked there were also britains, and obv she sent to death thousand of soldiers in a no-tactic battle
A women who burned people alive in the siege of Colchester
I remembered watching this episode some time back, and that one line has come back to haunt me from that episode, "Mercy is for the Weak!"
roman empire the best!
It died. Well fell really. After fleeing from their crumbling Western Empire to the Eastern Byzantine Captital in Constantinople they surrended to the Muslims. (watch seige of Constantinople ).
Violent murderers and torturers are nothing to be proud of
margix of course a 1k years of glory
Yes, they were the best at murder, corruption, slavery, theft, oppression, immoral decadent behavior, back-stabbing, civil wars, cruelty, etc. etc.
Oh and they were the best at invading others & forcing them into subjugation. Something to be really proud of, in your mind apparently!
@@gwyneth7812 as you the britons
RIP Boudica, mother of a great nation.
Which great nation? Brittain has an Anglo-Saxon culture and Boudica was Celtic who got extinct and replaced by Germanic settlers. These are 2 completely different nations.
A mother that slaughtered defenseless people and destroyed defenseless cities, Boudica was a monster, even worse than the Romans, she sent to die thousand of people becouse she had no tactic and no skill to lead an army
They fought back slaughtering women and children, that's not fighting, that's killing random people just becouse they were romans. When the Romans reorganized and started the real fight we all know how it ended, in the battle of Battle of Watling Street the icens had what they deserved.
Krillenko Yeah, well they were occupying stolen land.
If you really want to be informed about the boudicca uprising I suggest you to see the video of Historia Civilis, It only takes 10 minutes
we are learning about Boudicca in my school
I hope they are teaching it well
British Historian - Boudica's story is one of bravery and standing up against oppression to secure one freedom
British Empire - Trying to enslave every nation they encounter after that
Boudicca was Welsh. The British empire was English.
@@alynwillams4297 how was boudica Welsh? She came from the iceni tribe who's stronghold was what is now modern day Norfolk
@@alynwillams4297 the British empire was English? British, which is English, Welsh, Scottish, northern Ireland etc, what are you on about!?
@@craigswatching8740 Welsh is a Germanic word in which the invading Anglo Saxons and Jutes called the native Britons. The Welsh call themselves “Cymry” and “Cymru” which comes from the brittonic word “combrogi” which means “citizens” or “fellow countrymen” which is referring themselves as the natives of Britain. All so the word for victory in Welsh is “Buddugolieth” . The British empire was English and the rest were forced to come along.
@@alynwillams4297 forced to come along, you need to go back to school
they sort of forgot to mention that in the final battle (battle for watling street) she outnumbered the romans 20:1, she had all of the odds in her favour, but she still lost.
minus training, standardized armor, and organization. Still, her fault for not training her troops.
All asian remake of Space Jam in the final battle the Romans had the strategic advantage she could not fully employ her forces due to forest on both sides
NOT 20:1. Iceni outnumbered them, but many were women and young children and half of her army was not at the final battle, but still in London. And the men who fought were untrained famers. They did well considered the organized and trained Romans.
Iceni (Eye-Say-Nee). One of the most remarkable events in British history and the Roman Empire that has never been told in a blockbuster, Gladiator, style movie. Come on Ridley Scott.
What’s the relation between Iceni and celts?
@@salmanatiki314 It's their tribal name. The Iceni, also known as the Eceni, were a Celtic tribe based in what is now Norfolk, north-western Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire in south east England. There were numerous Celtic tribes in Britain at the time of the Roman occupation. The Caledones, Damnonii, Belgae and Brigantes were some of the more than 20 British tribes.
I love these videos! Please continue making more!
Ginger rage is lethal.
Those savages stood no chance against the 14th Legion and Legatus Paulinus, killer of barbarians. Glory to the divine Emperor
The Problem was she got over confident and believed she could beat the Romans in open field warfare. If she would of kept up her Guerrilla tactics she might of eventually pushed the Romans out of Britain.
@@alynwillams4297 Yeah she choose pitched battel against much better trained army on poorly chosen field and that caused huge rout and mass killing of her people. She Should have chosen similar tactics of Arminius and Viriathus
Imagine a king or queen who can fight his/her own battles, that would be a sight!
Alexander the Great
King leonidas of sparta
i think she won some battles because she only encountered roman vigiles units or town watch,, but she was utterly defeated sadly when she faced a real roman legion just like spartacus. its like having to fight cities defended by the national guard but then boom the rangers and the marines arrived. so yeah.
Amen, brother, they highly misplaced their praise for her "1st class military might" 🤣
Victorious only when fcing civilians, gets conpletly and absolutly wrecked when facing the legio
I would love to meet queen Boudicca.!
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then my ancestors invaded your lands.
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remember the Turks...
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Anglo Saxons did they were feared by Romans.
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Anglo Saxons [ Angles, Jutes, Saxons ]
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Romans fled from them
in 500AD remaining Italians [ their descendants make up 1million British people today in the UK ] the Roman Italians helped native Britons fight the Angles,Jutes,and Saxons.
this fight was pointless for a number of reasons one being the Germanics had superior Numbers.
The Italians and Britons claimed to be Romans and used Roman tactics and Armour [ I own some Roman Armour and weapons along with my Turkish and Greek].
These Romans made brave but ultimately futile Resistance against their Germanic Enemy who shown very little Mercy.
They fought for a while but ultimately crushed and overwhelmed.
The Anglo Saxons would go to become the dominant Genetic Group of the English and Scottish.
The remaining Britons [ Bretons] fled to Wales [ Wales meaning stranger ].
The others submitted to their new Rulers in hopes of being spared that failed mostly.
Anglo Saxon Kings and Queens fought badly and were disunited states.
Native Briton Males didn't breed well [ R1a and R1b] in England.
I1a is dominant in England comes from IJ which comes from the Middle East.
I1a went to North Europe
I2a went to SouthEast Europe and Balkans.
J1 stayed home
J2 went to Greece and Spain and Portugal And Italy and Algeria and Tunisia and Egypt.
this was such a wonderful series
"My ennemies will choke on their own blood!" - Rise of Kingdoms
Good vibes with her like a big sun.
They didnt mention she killed herself and her daughters with poison when she saw all was lost. But instead depict her as fighting to the death
Also didn't mention that she basically lost the only actual battle against an army despite having a number advantage of 5 to 1
Really? What's your source of information? The Roman depiction? Lol
"Boudicca's" warpaint at the end looks more like she was run over by a chariot.
Those savages didn't have any possibility against the superior Roman army
There's a lot of ways the Britons could have won. The Romans only had so many troops in Britain. Provided they avoided pitched battles the Britons could have over time worn the Romans down. Denying the Romans food would be the best way. Like Obi-Wan said: there are alternatives to fighting.
@@joebloggs5318 it's too easy to assault and destroy three cityes without walls and soldiers and kill 70,000 innocent Roman civilians. Boudicca had 230,000 warriors and she lost against 10,000 Roman legionaires, so she isn't a especially a genious. She was a fool
@john doe And I'm not Mexican ignorant
@john doe you said pendejo like if I was mexican .
@@sergius9571 Yeah like I said the Britons could have won in a lot of ways, not necessarily with Boudicca in charge. Sadly feminists really push Boudicca as some icon so there's this myth of her being a military genius. It takes little brains to throw a mob at your enemies and hope for the best.
thanks for this video because i really need the info for class
4:11 For Cammoludunm says the roman
Her legacy lives on!!!!!
Authentic depiction of ancient britons
We need her now ❤
She poisoned herself because her army lost the battle. She didn't die on the field
Allegedly
She died like a coward. I can think of another historical figure that did the same when they knew it was over
She was not going to be made a trophy of her enemies and chose to deny Rome the ultimate victory of dragging her in a triumph parade and execute her publicly. Boudica went down on her own terms as a free person.
@@HistoryLover1550 dont pretend there is any honour in what she did because there isnt
@@HistoryLover1550 okay cool I understand why she wouldnt want to be made a trophy, but why couldnt she fight to the death? Sounds like a coward to me
I saw this in movie form on DVD. Is it good?
Romans the masters oll the world..
Glad to see the Greyscale cleared up!
Boudica really supports the Matriarch system the natives apply in their society. Think we were all supposed to be staying native/tribal style
Vanessa Collingridge, the red-headed woman at 0:47 seems to me the more ideal profile for Boutica.
It's ironic how they are talk about Boudica and Injustice, when centuries later they became The Roman in India and Rani Lakshmibaii happened.
Anyway Boudica was seriously inspiring. More power to Women.
that's the english invaders and their norman queen
boadicea is a briton
Arindam Kaushik that's like over a thousand years, you know after the dark ages. Those colonists are not likely even be related to her it's been so many generations.
To Justice Rule
She was not Norman. The 1st century predates Frankish rule by some 400 years. So as Normans were part Frankish then no way could Boudicca be Norman.
There is an evil that has weaved it's way across the planet over thousands of years and worked through many nations: Greece, Rome, UK, US (etc. etc.)- I don't believe it's the nation people themselves but an evil force that works through them. It's aim is to kill the human spirit and create subservience. It has been very successful.
A native American I know had visions of the 'witch trials' (another made up tool for torture, fear, division and separation). In a talk she honoured the ancestors of the Europeans for resisting and holding out for so long and explained 'because when they were done with you, they came for me'.
Our current rulers have a corporate logo and they are assisted by governments in their rule.
To Karen Evans
The Salem community were theocratic. They ruled according to their beliefs in their religion. Their book.
There is a new Boudicca movie in the pipeline. Rhona Mitra has been cast to play her. It's going to be pretty bloody too.
Catherine zeta jones would of been better. At least she’s Welsh rather than an English person playing the role of a Briton.
@@alynwillams4297 That makes zero sense seeing as both the Welsh and Angles originate from Central Europe. The Welsh arrived in 600BC in the form of Beaker people. Boudicca was Iceni. They spoke a Germanic language. They couldn’t have been more unlike what eventually become the Welsh.
@@76Gazz the Welsh were Hunter gatherers who got cut off from the rest of Europe after the last ice age. Recent study by Oxford university all so shows that the Welsh have a different genetic make up of those from England, Scotland and Ireland and can hold claim to being the natives of Britain. All so the name Boudicca is still used in Welsh it’s “buddugoliaeth” which means Victory. The iceni were a Brythonic tribe which would of spoke an older version of what we now call Welsh. Welsh being a Germanic word in which the invaders called the native Britons.
@@alynwillams4297 The Welsh didn’t exist during the time of the the Hunter Gatherers. The Celtic Tribes of Central Europe who migrated to the British Isles bringing Bronze Age technology left skeletal remains of individuals all over Britain and have a very different DNA profile to remains found of those before them. So the Celts cannot claim to be the original inhabitants of Britain for the life of them. Four differing tribes settled in Wales. Demetae and Silures in the south and Deceangli and Ordovices in the north. Each tribe with their own Royal Family, priests and rituals. In what is now England was experiencing the very same thing. Wales only exists because the Romans couldn’t be bothered with invading the highlands of Britain. It’s true that the Welsh are all that is left of those Celtic cultures and the Welsh language is the oldest in Europe. But none of the people that live currently on the British Isles can claim to be the true inhabitants.
@@76Gazzabsolutely clueless...
The Romans had been to heavy handed their subjects. They should have made Boudica there puppet queen and ruled through her.
that wouldnt have made a difference romes rule was over the barbarian tribes of germany took over all empires fall no matter how great
You're somewhat right. It worked fairly well with Cartumandua but eventually she was defeated by her own people who would not kneel to Roman rule.
Found boudica tomb in ac valhalla.
But she was not blond. 😂 Red hair with long hair.
Because when the assassin had the vision of her, we saw her blond. At the same time, I was so happy to see her that, I saw in real life a figure with a dress and red long hair, she was warmly smiling at me. And '' took me '' in her arms.
After I found a round circular structures already in ruins. I didn't know what it was but that's how celtic people used to burry their lost ones. And I heard her saying '' there's nothing left of our sepultures. '' she was watching le playing.
Love her so much 🩸
Putting carriages behind the battle preventing a retreat is definitely military genius btw her pitched battle win rate is 50% and her main tactic was basically numbers
Ty I am learning about her
I see the shaming language in this thread.
I'm not going to drag the book out, but i remember Gibbon in his first volume, making note of the Romans and 7 centuries of training and strategy, which would fall about this time if you count the pre-republic period. They were unstoppable.
I have no mercy for Rome. They enslaved and forced the Brythonic peoples to dig the copper out of their own lands.
At one point in history, there were as many slaves as free people in Rome.
Gibbons also said that slavery allowed them to gain vast amounts of gold and metal for weapons and armor.
I can sleep easier knowing that Alaric, the great Gothic king, sacked Rome twice and humbled that arrogant race.
The Mistress of the Mediterranean drew the ire of many oppressed peoples.
Alaric was impressive in his feats, I agree. He brought Rome to its knees, which was poetic justice. The Romans, despite their superior technology & military might, were a cruel, violent, sadistic, corrupt & greedy society that only sought power by oppressing & stealing from others. That is the historical truth. Rome didn't deserve the mercy which Alaric showed it. He could have razed Rome to the ground but he didn't. Either way, his sack of Rome was the beginning of the end of the empire. By the way, Alaric, though considered a "germanic" Goth, was actually born in the Danube Delta, part of the old kingdom of the Getae. I believe that the Goths were related to the Getae, perhaps they were ethnic Getae themselves. There are numerous historical sources that confirm this relationship between the Goths & Getae. It's still of course a controversial subject, but one that is fascinating & worth researching.
Never head off her until researching my family tree and she shows up, now I’m excited to learn more!
Not meaning to burst your bubble or anything, but how can she be part of your family tree ?
Nobody knows anything about her, or which tribe she came from before marrying the Iceni king ?
..tribes , like kings throughout history, married their daughters to kings who ruled other land, to make alliances.
Not for love ..
@@kevwhufc8640 That's very true, the further back a person goes the harder it is to trust what is/isn't legit. Just thought it was neat, otherwise I would have likely never heard of her.
@@AustinRoney apparently we are all related to kings and queens, even if not directly ;)
Suetonius Paulinos is still the boss.
For the Empire!
"Give me back my legion"
Boudica and Alister Crowley are my heroes.
love the actress
Half of these comments are literally criticizing the way she fought from their comfortable little couch/bed/whatever nice surface the time you live in grants you. I doubt y'all would have done any better no matter how much you think you would have