You are confusing thst IT Bodecca with Boedicca whom IS female.America hater bodecca before I knew how evil he was,used to tell me In pm messages he had a wife,
The name is traditional Celtic female name.
After a Celtic queen who rebelled against Rome and succeeded for awhile.
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Boudica or
Boudicca (
UK:
/ˈbuːdɪkə, boʊˈdɪkə/,
US:
/buːˈdɪkə/), also known as
Boadicea (
/ˌboʊ(ə)dɪˈsiːə/, also
US:
/ˌboʊæd-/) or
Boudicea, and in
Welsh as
Buddug (IPA:
[ˈbɨðɨɡ]),
[1][2] was a queen of the
British Iceni tribe who led an
uprising against the
conquering forces of the
Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wounds, although there is no actual evidence of her fate. She is considered a British folk hero.
[3]
Boudica's husband
Prasutagus, with whom she had two children whose names are unknown, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the
Roman emperor in his will. However, when he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to
Tacitus, Boudica was
flogged and her daughters
raped.
[4] Cassius Dio explains Boudica's response by saying that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher
Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant
Celtic Britons.
[5]
In AD 60 or 61, when the
Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning on the island of
Mona (modern Anglesey) on the northwest coast of
Wales, Boudica led the Iceni, the
Trinovantes, and others in revolt.
[6] They destroyed
Camulodunum (modern
Colchester), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes but at that time a
colonia, a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers and site of a temple to the former Emperor
Claudius. Upon hearing of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to
Londinium (modern
London), the 20-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. He lacked sufficient numbers to defend the settlement, and he evacuated and abandoned Londinium. Boudica led a very large army of Iceni, Trinovantes, and others against a detachment of the
Legio IX Hispana, defeating them, and burning Londinium and
Verulamium.
An estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and Britons were killed in the three cities by those following Boudica,
[7] many by
torture.
[7] Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces, possibly in the
West Midlands; despite being heavily outnumbered, he
decisively defeated the Britons. The crisis caused
Nero to consider withdrawing all Roman forces from Britain, but Suetonius's victory over Boudica confirmed Roman control of the province. Boudica then either killed herself to avoid capture (according to Tacitus),
[8] or died of illness (according to Cassius Dio).
[9]
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The adjective, bodacious, is a tribute to her bravery.
