Post by Radrook Admin on Oct 9, 2020 16:37:18 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boadicea_and_Her_Daughters
This is is a statue in London honoring Boadicea, the queen of the Iceni and her daughters for their resistance against the Roman occupation.
This horrendous debacle is a prime example of how one solitary, mentally- deranged man in a position of political power can wreak havoc on thousands. Ironically, as soon as he noticed things heating up because if his injustices, he panicked and set sail for Rome.
So the ones paying for his savage indiscretions against the Iceni were innocent Roman citizens living in Britannia at the time, whom the Iceni attacked, the Roman soldiers who were involved in subduing the rebellion, and the thousands of Iceni, women, men and children who were mowed down during the last battle.
So the ones paying for his savage indiscretions against the Iceni were innocent Roman citizens living in Britannia at the time, whom the Iceni attacked, the Roman soldiers who were involved in subduing the rebellion, and the thousands of Iceni, women, men and children who were mowed down during the last battle.
The Iceni were a tribe of Celtic people who lived in Britain during that time, and had been subjugated into paying tribute as other Celtic tribes had been. Their King, Boadicea's husband, had formed a peaceful alliance with Rome. But when he died and left part of his wealth to Boadicea and his daughters along with Rome, all hell broke loose.
Not the fault of the Iceni-but the fault of the Roman governor who wanted the entire wealth to go to Rome and chose to abuse Boadicea by having her whipped and raped along with her virgin daughters. This outrage set off a war in which Boadicea led an Army of Iceni and a that of a neighboring tribe against the Roman legions, and against the local Roman settlements which were not adequately protected at the time of the rebellion.
Many lives were lost and people not directly involved in the outrage suffered horrible deaths on the Roman side-mostly civilians, before the Roman legions, that had been occupied in a campaign against the Druids, could successfully oppose her vast army.