[histored_11]

I was told about this girl: her daughters were raped in front of her by a certain group of (obviously) "bad guys" (for a lack of a better term), then led a collective against them, in turn defeating them. She had red hair.
If anyone knows the name of this woman and the full length story, I would greatly appreciate filling me in on the whole story!? :confused:

[templelane]

Don't know the story but her name is boadicea/ boudica
The last one is her proper name but someone (the victorians?) changed it to be more feminine!

Here's a link to get you started

Boadicea -- Queen of the Iceni

I've always liked that statue

Wikipedia has a really comprihensive entry

[wickedimp]

It's actually a really interesting story. You may well want to look at the differences in Celtic Law and Roman Law to get a background on the reasons leading up to Boudica's (Boo-Di-ka) fate at the hands of the Romans.

Terry Jones (of monty python fame) recently did a 4 part documentary called Barbarians for BBC2 which was screened there and on UKTVHistory. Very informative.

You may also wish to check military strategy references of the 'battle of wattling/watling street" and search roman military leaders such as Paulinus and Suetonius

Some of the best ancient writings concerning the part of history you are looking at were written by a roman (being that the victors always end up writing the history) Cassius Dio