![]() ![]() ![]() It's rumored that her tomb may be in the Hampstead area of London, or possibly beneath a train platform at London's King's Cross station. 61, possibly after taking poison to avoid being captured. She died after her final battle against the Romans in A.D. Several other British tribes joined her, and while the revolt was ultimately crushed by the Romans, the figure of Boudica became an English national hero in later centuries. The revolt was sparked by the death of Boudica's husband, the Iceni king the Romans then claimed they were the sole heirs of the Iceni kingdom, but Boudica considered her daughters had inherited at least half of it (it may be that the Romans didn't recognise the claim of the daughters because they were women.) Rather than negotiate, the Romans ordered Boudica beaten and her daughters raped, after which Boudica launched her revolt. The eighth standalone game in the Total War series of video games, Rome II is the successor to the 2004 game Rome: Total War. 60, she led a bloody revolt against Britain's Roman rulers, who had invaded in A.D. Total War: Rome II is a turn-based strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, and was released in September 2013 for Microsoft Windows. (Image credit: duncan1890 via Getty Images)īoudica was the queen of the Iceni tribe of Britons, who lived in what's now Norfolk in eastern England. ![]()
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