Did Boudica die in Flintshire?
Broc Beag School children are currently brought up on the horror story of Hiroshima, when 78,000 died in one afternoon. They are a little vague or totally ignorant of the August day in 61 CE when the XIVth and XXth Legions took a terrible revenge for the loss of their comrades of the IXth! The iron age ‘host’ of Britain was decimated with reputedly nearly 80,000 men, women and children dead. Boudica’s home area was East Anglia and she was queen of the tribe known to us as the Iceni. This massacre of many of the Iceni tribes people may have turned the east of Britain into wasteland for a decade. Boudica’s vast host, perhaps numbering up to 230,000 people, was endeavouring to trap the XIVth and XXth Legions, led by Paulinus and returning to their fort at Chester from the massacre of the Druids on Anglesey. The Roman Legions probably numbered no more than 10,000 men. The protagonists Boudica means Victorious or Victoria. Dio tells us that in stature she was very tall, in appearance most t
