Boudicca (from the Proto-Celtic boudi, "victory") was the **Iceni queen of eastern Britain who led the largest indigenous revolt against the Roman Empire** (60-61 CE). **After Roman officials flogged her and raped her daughters following her husband's death, she rallied a coalition of British tribes and sacked Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans)** — burning all three to the ground and killing an estimated 70,000-80,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons. **Her revolt was the closest the Britons ever came to expelling Rome.**
Subject of Tacitus's *Annals* (14.29-39) and a famous bronze statue on Westminster Bridge in London.
Boudicca reduces to eight — the number of Iceni warrior-queen.