Barbarians Rising: Boudica, Warrior Queen | History 

Nomoredrama2000 bc it was too short.

Because her only military achievement had been the torture and killing of innocent civilians, that were even Britons for the main part. The only time she faced a real opposition, she led her army in one of the worst military blunders recorded in history, whitout the opponent even having to invent some special tactic.

The Eagle (2011)?

Gazzara5 why lol?

There is Movie done it's pretty cool.

Bullshyt

We don’t really know there are these two possibilities

According to the Romans. They’re the only record we have on Boudicca. Not exactly a reliable source. We don’t know how she died.

coward

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Elliot Goon then Germania came and sieged Rome to the point where Rome kneeled and fell.

@@alenimelis4969 then Eastern roman empire took back Italy and carthage from vandals and the Germany teaching them a lesson they will never forget like belisarus took Italy back from German ostrogoth and vandals that what you get when you think you can beat civilization!!

@@alenimelis4969 As if Rome wasn't being threatened from all sides

Rome ruled. A two thousand year run is unmatched in history. Not the Persians, not the Chinese, the Romans even continue to this day in the law, the architecture, but most of all in Western Civilization that is its heir, and which even now similarly under attack from barbarians.

Bar Korba?

I think Disney should make the movie about her, it will be brave and cool

Mogie Bridgette no where because she sucked

Brave?

Mogie Bridgette Celtic Queen/ Princess for Disney... Merida . Boudica, eh , idk .

@@Laura.Cynthia Ah yes, leading 200,000 to their deaths is so brave

Strategy vs mindless barbaric tribe

@@AverageAlien:I think his point was Boudica DIDN'T rush headlong into the Romans!😳

@@jrooksable she did lol, the Romans didn't fight in a forest but to their backs to a very thick one so they wouldn't get flanked, she charged the legions uphill into a rain of pila that decimated her Frontline and got counter charged by heavy infantry coming down a slope which is... Yeah... She really wasn't a tactical genius

I live in StAlbans, verulamium ,in Roman times, the old Roman road watling street is directly under many parts of the modern watling street and where it's not under it's by the side, I travel along it most days. it still follows exactly the same route as it did 2000 years ago. There are only a few places the battle could have been that fit the description. It could easily be found if someone funded the money for the archaeologists and equipment needed . But sadly nobody wants to pay/ fund , for historical reasons alone, people want to earn a profit from their money. If I was wealthy I would happily pay to look for the site . Its somewhere around the dunstable area , near to the river for animals and people to drink and the only area with hills and slopes, before and after is quite flat . It has to be close to the chiltern hills / valley. A few miles north of verulamium..

Umm, yes she did lol She did NOT have to face the Romans in that particular area but chose to anyway. The Romans did the equivalent of backing into a doorway and let the horde come at them in basically single file.

i've been saying this since ages and i love it

Dead in live yeah and what weird is the alecia Debnam Carey and this woman look very similar

wtf I didn't see this earlier

Dead in live , Yes! In 2:46 look at how similar they look!

Boudica inspired many female roles

Same goes for her speech before Paulinus's legion.

And im sure she regretted it as well when a roman general schooled her with an army a fraction of her size. Her greatest accomplishments will always be tarnished by the unnecessary torture of civilians, men women and children alike.

This quote is how I live my life 😂

"You will regret making enemies of us" *crumbles instantly as soon as she starts fighting soldiers instead of slaughtering civillians.

​@@jamesshore3191they was traitors not civilians..

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As a Celtic person yeah our ancestors music and culture was fantastic to bad the Romans stole it from us

@@kratosboy5557 Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was born female and has female genitals. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly should play Queen Boudicca in a Boudicca biopic. 🎭🎨🎹🥁🎸

@@kratosboy5557 That's a lie. Romans didn't steal anything. It's because the Romans documented that we even know of these people. If it weren't for the Romans we wouldn't know anything about the Tribes. It's like the Tribe that Prince Philip visited. And showed them pictures. They were amazed. You could see your ancestors. Seeing your ancestors was so important to that tribe and the tribal societies. As the ancestors were the gods. It wasn't like a single god theory. Society started by people burning the fire in the house and that was the fire of the god. Eventually, these got joined into becoming "Roman gods" but they were just noble houses and family fires. The Romans weren't just evil. They were an uplifting society, that uplifted humanity. Rather than tribal fighting. Romans found human sacrifice barbaric. That's what these tribes did.

​@@kashfiaislam9995our day will come, the celtic otherworld awaits surpassers and traitors..

she was winning because she was fighting against lightly guarded civilian populations. retired roman soldiers, old men, women and children, once she ran out of sitting ducks and was forced to fight real roman soldiers, she led her people to the slaughter! the romans were well trained, well armored, highly disciplined and enjoyed superior leadership. boudicca's forces lacked all of these and chose to fight the roman army anyway.

@@sixmax11 true but you gotta respect how effective she was

@@billclark5055 Laughs in Legio XIV Gemina

They should've stuck to fighting that way. They could've forced Rome out.

She was winning as long as she was killing defenses civilians... Killed tens of thousands of civilians 😳 She's one of the worst leaders in history. She literally was defeated by an army 10 times smaller than her with her won tactical mistakes. And now all the media is trying to portray her as a hero... Give me a break.

And the Romans don’t mess around either!

GameB Awesome these were druids

Druids are Celtic

eww

Druid is a term for a priest, not the name for a tribe.

And the druids mostly lived in Anglesey, not the East.

Galic , A first language, spoken where ? Wales ? Ireland ? Certainly not in England. Or Scotland.

@@kevwhufc8640 Cape Breton, In Canada.

@@kgm4556 ok , that makes sense, I think at least half the population was & is French ancestry.

@@kevwhufc8640 Part of the Island is. The other part is Gaelic. Really cool Island, lots of history.

Haha yup

Daaim son

anybody else see allister thorn

Also look for Merryn Trant, Dickon Tarly, Barristan Selmy.

0:05 - Dim Dalba, wildling elder

Well, the Romans were an insanely good army, and they had the Roman Square. Barbarians like Boudica had no chance of penetrating the Roman Square.

a lot of that had to with the followers, her army got trapped trapped between their own supply line and the roman army, because civilians came out to watch the battle.

She destroyed the 9th Legion and then Suetonius came back with the 14th.

I read in peter ackroyd that she had an army of a 100000

When they were fighting guerilla style they were winning but once she went into open battle with the Romans they never stood a chance

We will build a wall and make the Scott's pay for it

scots ARE britons....there both the same thing just different cultures

They was all ancient Britons dummy

Scots didn't migrate from ulster till the early dark ages. Ancient Caledonians spoke a form of welsh or pictish but there isn't that much information on the picts some think their celts others think they are related to the Basque people

9th legion??

@@alenimelis4969 ofcourse i agree with you. I am just saying she went right into roman trap and it wss a big mistake.. 😊

BBTGTG I would use The Roman Citizens as hostages and make Rome leave giving some hostages while keeping others in slavery.

Is it really brave to send other people to their deaths

@@connorhudock1950Yea she is brave.Had her horde murder innocents and then send them to their death aganist 10 times smaller army

There is a saying about bravery in my country “there is really little difference between bravery and foolishness”

I would like to know.

It's been 4 years

Could you explain to me please and could you mention her husband’s name please

Her husband (the king) died and tried to protect his land & family by making his daughters joint heirs with emperor Nero. Believing that that would protect them from Roman predation and his daughters could govern in Nero’s place. Of course, the romans had no respect for women so as far as they were concerned, it was now Nero’s kingdom/land and Boudicca and her daughters could get F’d. (Also, her husband was called Prasutagus.)

thats what i thought !XD

badfoody she always gets the short end of the stick.

Dombaili they where Roman invaders.what's the use in driving the legions out if the citizens of rome are still there

They weren't fighting for justice except for Boudicca alone. But as people they fought for there freedom and culture but got defeated and there culture destroyed by the Romans.

70,000 isn't close to what the Romans did to them

Settler colonialists aren't civilians. They're the support structure for an invasion at best and genocide at worst.

Their culture was destroyed by the Romans huh? As Dan Carlin once said...."What language are they speaking in Rome these days...because in parts of Modern day Briton they still speak Gaelic...so it ain't dead yet!"

kaiba2099ify failed miserably

@@thomasprent2179 yeah not to mention that she was fighting for a claimant to the Imperial throne...

She technically reversed all the good thing her husband did if im not mistaken

mudkips are life she did she destroyed his saving of the empire after odaenathus had turned down any chance to take it all for himself but she took it for herself and lost

Jackson Brannon ye i destroyed her faction in rome 2

Yasir Iqbal Well no one knows and can't know for sure how she died.If she did fight in the front line then it's more than likely that she fell (quite easily i suspect) in battle

Her fate is like that of Spartacus. No one saw them die so its assumed they either died in battle or survived but died shortly afterwards

She was a coward

@@sergius9571 She lead the charged against Rome. You are uneducated.

@@animationdramanation5730 hahahaha, but she failed. DEFEATED by less than 10.000 Roman soldiers.

Yes time to see her in hazbin hotel and helluva boss

Think god the Roman are gone Think you huns and goths

You should learn about Tomyris.

Also Tacitus was the son-in-law of the commander of the last battle, so he had a personal reason to talk it up. It's very unlikely the "army" was that large.

And this show is british, hence you don't hear them talk about boudiccas torturing and killing of thousands of civilians.

@@echelonanglo2226 Besides the part where she clearly sets fire to a building with people inside?

If the legends were written by the Romans themselves it could be total garbage. They were probably so embarrassed losing to a tribal woman they had to inflate her army numbers and say she slaughtered her own people to make them seem like the heroes of the hour 🤷‍♂️

No doubts the Romans embellished a lot....

Your absolutely right, Caratacus spent years fighting the Roman's, attacking in guerrilla style, hit and run , joining with other Celts, including Welsh , where they were based . The only reason the Romans got him was because a norhern queen ,cartimandau ( of the brigante tribe, I believe) drugged his wine and handed him over to the Romans. Caratacus was part of the royal family who ruled the lands of middle Britain, the capital city was verulam ( later called verulamium, by Romans) modern day StAlbans, the city I live in . He's a local hero , but hardly gets mentioned by historians. I'm glad to see someone knows he was far more important than boudicca.

She was brave, but tooo suipid.

Wasn't brave at all

and thats what got her army killed

Actually, her first charge retreated after getting speared to death. However..... Boudicca: What? They've killed my men with spears. Well, instead of changing my plans, i think they should charge in AGAIN!

wow it's almost like that was obviously a metaphor and you took it out of context. Unless you think the "strength of the roman army" is an actual physical thing and not a concept....

@@ABCD-xg6nr Why are her gods false??😂

Maybe something happened and the Romans forced her ro directly engage them. That's why it's the last battle she needed to free Britian.

Well I can tell u she wasnt amazing irl

Maybe you should not get information from games solely

Boudicca was Welsh.

Read history you fool , Angels/Celts didn't dominate England , it was anglo-saxon & Norman society and lot of angels were already killed and concentrated only to Wales. Also in other fact African slave trade was completely dominated by Jewish slave traders.

This video is biased

@@Vazel I can see why you think that and you are entitled to your own opinion as anyone else.

Ironic considering the british empire

@@benyaminyaphiliandro2032 True.

you sound really soy, just thought I'd let you know that

I hope they are teaching it well

Fantastic

Absolutely awful.

@@tarkus2455 Absolutely brilliant

not boring

25 years service to the legion you get house with running clean water IF YOU LIVE THAT LONG 😂

Tooky history?😃😃😃

This documentary embellished a few things from the actual sources in terms of the fates of these Barbarian leaders. Like with Viriathus - this doc showed him stabbed to death whilst overlooking the Iberian lands in his camp when irl he was killed in his sleep.

Tomás Molina this documentary is absolute garbage. It’s an attempt to rewrite the fall of western Rome as some well-deserved impact of a civil rights movement.

Lol

Wahmen for you

You realise that the majority of people had been oppressed by the romans for years ? They had all their weapons confiscated and were banned from owning them… yet the celts still managed to kill 70000+ romans and burn their 3 biggest towns to the ground… these weren’t soliders filling the ranks of The Celtic queens army they was ordinary people that became tired of being oppressed and stood against their oppressive Roman invaders!

No, she just wanted revenge.

Anyone who can compare a great warrior queen like Boudicca to some corrupt hack like Hillary Clinton who used her lying, cheating husband for power are morons.

Because the way the story had been told here is ridiculous and has nothing historical in it. Is only pampering the mith of Boudica that had been created in early modern age.

The Beast 5 to 1... Those numbers are roman exaggeration nothing more..

sean sammon ? Ancient armies especially barbarian people cannot manage to assemble or campaign with that much army. Romans always exaggerated their enemies as every other people.

And Brazilians have Maria Quitéria

Nope...there was a bandwagon of civilians with her. .

the numbers dont include the civilian logistics,

That’s if you believe the Roman’s who essentially claimed 200 Britons died to every Roman. Call me skeptical but I am pretty sure the Romans were exaggerating about numbers. I highly doubt they were outnumbered 5 to 1 in reality.

@earaza not necessarily like defeat in detail strategy

@@erinroberts711 I do believe they were pretty outnumbered(although Rome has lied about numbers once that I recall from research and left defeats to big to hide with little detail from their writers), the Romans position was a very strong one, and they had superior military equipment and training, although Britians did indeed train and have a form of military discipline, they were much more suited for dueling where strength is matched one on one, a battle takes mind, timing and a connection with the troops, a lot of battles that are now famous victories actually came close to defeat for a a victor, Alexander at Gaugamella and Scipio at Zama both came very close to defeat.

Aho

LOOOOOL simp

Your now gonna say that to a barbarian that fighting against civilization... boudicca is a barbarian that did nothing but win against small roman troops or citizens but when they meet roman legions face to face even if boudicca outnumbered the romans the legions of rome still win civilization always win against barbarians that are uncivilised

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Amen, brother, they highly misplaced their praise for her "1st class military might" 🤣

I dunno, William Wallace accomplished what she could not even if he also died, dunno why would you want to see William Wallace but with a female lead and ending in failure

For one thing, there was a movie made about Boudicca starring Alex Kingston called Boudicca Warrior Queen in 2003. Secondly, William Wallace and Boudicca aren't in any way comparable, and thirdly, Wallace's efforts didn't do any good in the long run as his execution was followed by two centuries of near-constant conflict with England before it finally fell under the British crown in a political scheme.

From the Roman perspective it would be a comedy. From the celtic perspective...a tragedy

@@Rinasan28 William Wallace had more success than Boudicca ever could have. Her army was mostly women. A joke. Easily crushed

@@AverageAlien She destroyed 5 Roman cities and killed everyone in them. Doesn't sound like a joke to me. Also, the army was not all women - that is false.

True words

Well said.

It's commmon sense really :P

George Pitsounis ;; Madness as you know is a lot like gravity,all it takes is a little push

wtf there is no need for a force to be applied for gravity to take it's course

Jarhead WhiskeyTango this escaped from history to physics Gg xd

Vast overestimate. Some of her army were still in London, and the rest although they still outnumbered the Romans, were as often untrained women and children and the men farmers. They did well considering.

Though if she continued her tactics after that, we may see second Teutoburg.

Sorry, but the phalanx was mainly used by the greeks, at this time, no romans used a phalanx. They fought in a wedge formation

And the romans wouldn’t have come back with a bigger army, the British tribes were wild, spread out, and for the most part Britain lacked significant resources that Rome wanted, pushing Britain would have been to much trouble for them and they wouldn’t have fought that hard if she had won. They gave up on Germany after 15,000 casualties

1. The Romans did not fight in phalanx formation. 2. Unless Rome lost an eagle standard, they'd have not gone back. And if they did lose one, they'd only go back to retrieve it. Britain was only conquered because Claudius wanted something behind his name. Nero succeeded Claudius, and by then it was obvious that Britannia was a financial drain on the imperial coffers. Eventually, the Romans did abandon Britannia...for the same reasons Nero wanted to abandon it. Seneca, Nero's mentor, played a big role in these events. Under Claudius, Seneca forced huge loans on the Celts, including the Iceni. Seneca wanted his money back, with interest. The Procurator that had Boudica flogged, was accompanied by thugs, belonging to Seneca. Nero wanted to abandon Britannia, but was convinced otherwise. Julius Ceasar was there a 100 years before and also determined that it was not worth it.

could not be beaten in open field, unless of course their facing horse archers and heavy Calvary then they tended to get smashed. Parthians Sassanid's, Goths to name a few

What's there to be proud about? 90% of Celtic tribes were wiped out by enslavement and assimilation by the Romans.

@@Ghost-vi8qmyour only focusing on one aspect of them, I am proud of their spirit and not giving up to slavery like so many other countries did. And also why is it any of your business why I am proud of them?, am I not allowed to be?, if a black person said that about their ansestory and you only focused on thr enslaved part would u say the same thing? Is is that wrong that I am proud of their strength? Yea they failed but the were braver than u clearly ever will be. Is it wrong? Because I just think frankly your comment is rude and disrespectful to a culture you clearly don't and will never understand or learn to respect

@@panface8477 I see you cannot have s conversation without insulting them personally, so it's you who is being rude. And I know more of the Celts and there history then you think.

@@Ghost-vi8qm I was insulting u cause u insulted me. And what you said acctually really hurt me so I think my response was valid

@@panface8477 I did not insult you, I was stating a fact. So stop being a whiny sissy and grow up! Now I insulted you!

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RAJU PEDDADA then my ancestors invaded your lands.

RAJU PEDDADA remember the Turks...

RAJU PEDDADA Anglo Saxons did they were feared by Romans.

RAJU PEDDADA Anglo Saxons [ Angles, Jutes, Saxons ]

RAJU PEDDADA Romans fled from them in 500AD remaining Italians [ their descendants make up 1million British people today in the UK ] the Roman Italians helped native Britons fight the Angles,Jutes,and Saxons. this fight was pointless for a number of reasons one being the Germanics had superior Numbers. The Italians and Britons claimed to be Romans and used Roman tactics and Armour [ I own some Roman Armour and weapons along with my Turkish and Greek]. These Romans made brave but ultimately futile Resistance against their Germanic Enemy who shown very little Mercy. They fought for a while but ultimately crushed and overwhelmed. The Anglo Saxons would go to become the dominant Genetic Group of the English and Scottish. The remaining Britons [ Bretons] fled to Wales [ Wales meaning stranger ]. The others submitted to their new Rulers in hopes of being spared that failed mostly. Anglo Saxon Kings and Queens fought badly and were disunited states. Native Briton Males didn't breed well [ R1a and R1b] in England. I1a is dominant in England comes from IJ which comes from the Middle East. I1a went to North Europe I2a went to SouthEast Europe and Balkans. J1 stayed home J2 went to Greece and Spain and Portugal And Italy and Algeria and Tunisia and Egypt.

Allegedly

She died like a coward. I can think of another historical figure that did the same when they knew it was over

She was not going to be made a trophy of her enemies and chose to deny Rome the ultimate victory of dragging her in a triumph parade and execute her publicly. Boudica went down on her own terms as a free person.

@@HistoryLover1550 dont pretend there is any honour in what she did because there isnt

@@HistoryLover1550 okay cool I understand why she wouldnt want to be made a trophy, but why couldnt she fight to the death? Sounds like a coward to me

It died. Well fell really. After fleeing from their crumbling Western Empire to the Eastern Byzantine Captital in Constantinople they surrended to the Muslims. (watch seige of Constantinople ).

Violent murderers and torturers are nothing to be proud of

margix of course a 1k years of glory

Yes, they were the best at murder, corruption, slavery, theft, oppression, immoral decadent behavior, back-stabbing, civil wars, cruelty, etc. etc. Oh and they were the best at invading others & forcing them into subjugation. Something to be really proud of, in your mind apparently!

@@gwyneth7812 as you the britons

I know, right? True she could've used better military tactics at the end. But the fact that she slaughtered 70,000 civilians, and a whole legion to prevent them from rescuing the first 20,000 is no small feat!!!

Well thing is... she lost and she did slaughter innocents. (Fight the power) In the end she failed. Not really a good role model. Now if you would like to learn of a real Queen who was a success I recommend Tomiris/Tomyris of the Scythians. 😉

@@burningman1239 A whole slew of military heroes have lost, but are still celebrated (Leonidas, Hannibal, Spartacus, etc.). And it's a sad fact, but ancient warfare didn't discriminate between soldiers and civilians. Instead of trying to hold them to a 21st century standard, look at what they tried to accomplish, and what they did accomplish regardless of whether or not they ultimately lost. Boudica set out to avenge not just herself but her impoverished people and violated children. She may have gone down in flames, but she gave Rome third degree burns in the process. And besides, various differing accounts exist of the death of Cyrus the Great. And Herodotus is not known for his accuracy.😉

She is the mother of us all

Ditz.

No, Her army molded the 9° legion in an ambush. The 9° were a shock troop

the 9th ?Just stop please :P There is a huge gap in time over here.Her army was butchered by 10000 romans who were outnumbered at least 5 to 1

George Pitsounis yet it was 3 to 1 , because the rest were at the region of londinium, 5 to 1 it will be possible if you include families and children of the rebels, but the proportion only counts the effective warriors

ZsaZsa InTheShire Seperate because of what exactly?

When it’s the Roman Empire you’re fighting against it’s more understandable

"Give me back my legion"