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Question: Boudicca, good or bad!?
Happy to live under the Romans and keep peace and collect taxes for them until her hubby died and they wanted a man to do the job!.

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Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so!."
That was Hamlet to his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the play "Hamlet" - Act 2 Scene 2!.
It depends entirely on your point of view!.
To the Romans, she was bad!.
As a champion against injustice to women, she was good!.
As a British patriot against foreign oppression, she was good!.
As a leader who wound up getting thousands of her people killed, she was bad!.
If she had won, she might have been good - but even in victory many of her followers would have died!. To those dead people and their families, she would have been bad!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I wouldn't sum it up like that!. The Romans gave her and her tribe great insult!. More so it was an uneasy peace with the Romans that her hubby struck!. When they raped her daughters I think it was that was it, that was war and if Boudicca hadn't led it somebody else would have!. They had an easy time finding help with the tribes that never submitted to the Romans!.

The Celts though faced two huge problems!. They were excellent fighters one on one but Roman tactics were pretty much specifically designed to fight Celts and if the Romans were given the chance to form up in ranks the battle tended to be very one sided with droves of Celt dead!.

The other problem was they couldn't stop fighting each other long enough to unite and go after any common enemy!. Even in Boudicca's rebellion many tribes refused to participate, even some of the ones actually actively at war with Rome already!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Boudicca was, primarily a young girl, rather than a war leader!.

The way that thier father hoped to continue the royal line, which would die with him, was to marry his daughters to the Roman emporer!. The romans took advantage, since they had no reason to want a continuation of the Iccini royal line!. This resulted in Boudicca being publically whipped!. This outraged not only the Britains, but the pupulous back in Rome, since as a nation they tended to have a soft spot for defiled princesses!.

Regarless, due to this, Boudicca managed to get a popular revolt going!. But as I said, she was no war leader!. If she had been, she would have thought the Romans in a Gurilla war, attacking their supply lines and taking out small targets!. Unfortunately for her and the British cause, she decided to fight the Romans on the open field!. A big mistake!.

Let us assume that she did fight the Romans corectly and succeeded in driving them out of Britain!. This may have caused revolt in other countries, since the Roman army would have been shown to be weak!. A result of this is that Roman power may have been stripped, or at least weakened!.

With the Romans out of the way, Britain would have become just another Celtic country!. Perhaps, without the Anglo Saxon invasion and the Norman conquest, Britain, under the Celts, may not have become great enough to forge an empire!. Another result of Boudicca winning may have been that a weekend Roman empire might not have been in any fit state to counter the Muslim hords as the Mohamedans sweapt towards Europe!. Europe, or large parts of it, may not have been able to remain Christian!.

So, Boudicca was bad as a war leader, but her defeat may have helped Britain gain an empire and Rome to keep out the Eastern hords!.

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Definitely a hero!

"Boudicca (incorrectly Boadicea) (d!. ad 61), queen of the Iceni, Celtic war leader!. Abused by Roman officials after the death of her husband, Prasutagus, she revolted in ad 60-1!. Together with the neighboring Trinovantes, she destroyed part of the Ninth Legion, burnt Colchester, London, and St Albans, and caused the financial procurator of Britain to flee to Gaul!. Advancing against the governor, Suetonius Paullinus, who had been away campaigning in Wales, she was utterly defeated and took poison!." - Answer!.com

A queen, a Celtic war leader, abused by Roman officials after her husband dies, and she is left with no protection, she just didn't sit still and cry, "oh victimized me, oh!.!.!.!." Instead she revolted and showed them what a woman is capable of doing!. Upon her capture, she took a hero's way out (took poison!"

Not villainous was she, Boudicca!

"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so," quotes Spreedog from Shakespeare; I beg to differ with the bard for once!!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

After her husband's death he willed half his kingdom to Nero to settle debts but when the Romans arrived they took it all!. They beat Boudicca and raped her daughters!. She rebelled, was triumphant early but was over-matched by Roman tactics and strategy and ultimately lost!.

Heroine to my way of thinking!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Heroine to the Celts!. The English didn't live in Britain then, they were a northern European race, the Angle, along with the Saxons and Jutes!. though they claim her and King ArthurWww@QuestionHome@Com

Well she's a heroine to the Englich as a woman whom stood up against Roman tyranny, so i would say hero or heroine in her case!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

She did massacre tens of thousands of people on her campaigns in colchester and london but she also resisted roman conquest/oppression of britainWww@QuestionHome@Com

Woman !Www@QuestionHome@Com

an heroine
burnt her bra and liberated the Britains!.
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Sorry not familar with her!.!. but she musta been a Hero!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Good like you!.!.!.!.!.!?Www@QuestionHome@Com