Facts about Boudica
Dio says that even if they were lined up one deep, they would not have extended the length of Boudica's line.
Many believe that Boudica herself is buried under one of the platforms at King's Cross railway station.
Her name takes many forms in various manuscripts, but was almost certainly originally Boudicca or Boudica, derived from the Celtic word *bouda, victory (cf.
Boudica's army then burned the 20-year-old settlement of Londinium (London) to the ground and destroyed Verulamium (Saint Albans), killing an estimated 70,000-80,000 people.
Boudica chided the men that if they wanted to live in slavery, that was their choice, goading them to fight with all they had.
By the Middle Ages, before the telescope was invented, more people began to recognize the Moon as a sphere, though they believed it was "perfectly smooth."
Until the late twentieh century, Boudica was known as Boadicea, which is probably derived from a mistranscription when a manuscript of Tacitus was copied in the Middle Ages.
The name is attested in inscriptions as "Boudica" in Lusitania, "Boudiga" in Bordeaux and "Bodicca" in Britain.
The narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could only put forth as many troops as the Romans could at a given time.
Based on later development of Welsh and Irish, Kenneth Jackson concludes that the correct spelling of the name is Boudica, pronounced /b??'di?.ka:/, although it is mispronounced by many as /bu?.dik'?/.
When the Roman soldiers had used up their javelins, they were able to engage Boudica's second wave in the open.
Boudica has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom.
Boudica's story was included in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, "Bonduca" in 1610.
Dio says that at the outset Boudica employed a form of divination.