Will Rome’s northern frontier fall? – Battle of Watling Street, 60 AD
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🚩 In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s strategy for command and control failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army is in retreat and the power of Rome is questioned. The Iceni army led by Boudica has cornered the outnumbered Romans at Mancetter. The Roman general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus steels his men for the battle ahead: “Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. We have beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they will crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward! Knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you will have everything!”
📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🎼 Music:
Epidemic Sound
Filmstro
📚 Sources:
Boudicca’s Rebellion AD 60–61: The Britons rise up against Rome (2011), Nic Fields, Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978 1 849083133.
The Annuls of Imperial Rome (2009), Tacitus, Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Digireads.com Publishing. ISBN: 1-4209-2668-3.
Boudica & Britain https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/boudica.html
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🚩 In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s strategy for command and control failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army is in retreat and the power of Rome is questioned. The Iceni army led by Boudica has cornered the outnumbered Romans at Mancetter. The Roman general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus steels his men for the battle ahead: “Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. We have beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they will crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward! Knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you will have everything!”
I also make a sacrifice to the Algorithm
This si why women should not be followed to war and have rarely lead battles.
"She a woman will fight for freedom"
flees as soon as the fight is lost without fighting herself
Big mouth, not much substance.
Truely a "strong, modern woman who needs no men"
Well, except to do the dying and fighting for her of course.
Why didn't other British tribes join the uprising?
I have to question the "wedge formation" claim. Such a formation makes no sense for Roman infantry.
So it would take roughly 6-7 Brits to make one Roman 😁
I've not seen the news today……did it fall?
Boudica should stay back in a kitchen, and feed the chickens in the yard….
Still can't understand how these people didn't go through the woods to harass the flanks and rear??? It's just…woods?