Boudicca
Americannoun
noun
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Andrew Gimson, author of "Gimson's Heroes: Brief Lives from Boudicca to Churchill", told 5 Live he was not surprised that Johnson was top of the pots.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
He was speaking as he power-washed the statue of another queen - Boudicca - who led a revolt by Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire and whose statue overlooks the Houses of Parliament.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
She started to believe that she was descended from Queen Boudicca and thus the true heir to the English throne.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
Others are quasi-mythical figures, whose lives are so obscured by legend that the truth is hazy: Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Nefertiti, Sybil Ludington, Mata Hari.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018
The Britons were decisively defeated and Boudicca committed suicide.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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