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heavycola · Post by **heavycola** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:33 am

Iz Man wrote:
heavycola wrote:
Iz Man wrote:
Jenos Ridan wrote:Read your history Iz. Ever hear of Boudica? How 'bout that lady in the Book of Judges?
Boadicea. There's always the exception.
Actually her name is spelled Boudica or Boudicca. Boadicea is out-of-date.
whatever.
It was how her name was originally spelled, and how she was referred to by the Romans.
Who really cares?

Well you do, obviously, cos you corrected him...

n8freeman · Post by **n8freeman** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:35 am

in the end, didnt boadicea get her ass handed to her

Iz Man · Post by **Iz Man** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:15 am

n8freeman wrote:in the end, didnt boadicea get her ass handed to her

I just checked it out and you're right.
Moreover, the Romans were outnumbered 20-1 in that battle......

So much for the exception..

Jenos Ridan · Post by **Jenos Ridan** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:28 pm

Iz Man wrote:
n8freeman wrote:in the end, didnt boadicea get her ass handed to her
I just checked it out and you're right.
Moreover, the Romans were outnumbered 20-1 in that battle......

So much for the exception..

Note, Celts were primative barbarians who favored mass charges to fixed formations. And strode into battle without armor. This was more a factor than the leadership.

Jenos Ridan · Post by **Jenos Ridan** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:32 pm

MeDeFe wrote:Are you sure you don't mean "against"?

Quite sure. The Romans, while invading Gaul, noted how the married womenfolk fought more savagely than the men. Not that it helped in the slightest though.

The1exile · Post by **The1exile** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:37 pm

Iz Man wrote:Moreover, the Romans were outnumbered 20-1 in that battle......

Guess who wrote that?

Tacitus, probably the historian that I know off the top of my head who has the most criticism for his lack of neutrality (or partiality to others; his uncle was in the battle against Boudicca).

Jenos Ridan · Post by **Jenos Ridan** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:32 am

The1exile wrote:
Iz Man wrote:Moreover, the Romans were outnumbered 20-1 in that battle......
Guess who wrote that?

Tacitus, probably the historian that I know off the top of my head who has the most criticism for his lack of neutrality (or partiality to others; his uncle was in the battle against Boudicca).

The number most historians I've heard agree on is 15-1. But again, we must remember that in the case of barbarians in that era, numbers never seemed to help as much as one would think.