Boadicea reads like the 60 AD version of the story of Pakistani grooming gang invaders.
Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, was flogged & her daughters raped by Roman invaders' slaves upon her husband's death. This was an affront to the semi-divine nature of this Druid priestess queen & the sacred beliefs of the Britons. Boadicea subsequently raised an army of 120,000 Britons, burning Roman occupied Colchester & London to the ground.
"Tacitus describes how Boudica rallied her troops in warrior queen style, arguing she had morality, bravery & the gods on her side. Cassius' battle speech for her draws upon Roman ideas of Britons as ethereal, almost mythical beings – brave, using ancient & secret arts, goddesses & an auspicious hare to beat their opponents in place of cold, hard steel.' She was fighting as an ordinary person for her lost freedom, her bruised body & her outraged daughters. ‘Win the battle or perish: that is what I, a woman will do; you men can live on in slavery if you will." #Boudica (source)
