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Boadicea, or Boadicca ( ?-62 A.D.). Queen of the Iceni, a tribe inhabiting the territory now part Norfolk and Suffolk in England. She led a revolt against the Roman occupation in 62 A.D., took Londiniurn and Verulamium, and killed, according to Tacitus, 70,000 Romans and British partisans of Rome.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 386. (J. Thomas Sculpt., Etched by Wm. St. J. Harper)
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