Re: Re; [OT] Women wargamers -longish

At 18:50 12/09/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> >	There was a "warrior queen" named Boadicea in Roman age
>> >	Britain who gave the Romans a hard time.  She conquered
>> >	the Roman colony of Camulodunum (now Cholchester)
>> >	and defeated an entire Roman division.
>> 
>>	Yep a nasty piece of work however she got beat in the only
pitched
>battle
>> of the revolt. I think by division you mean Legion (about 5000 men).
>IIRC
>> no legions were lost although several smaller units and their forts
>were
>> overrun.
>
>No, by division he probably means some other sort of detachment - IIRC
>almost half of the 9th legion was ambushed and bloodily defeated while
>marching from south from Eboracum in the early part of the revolt. I've
>seen some figures talking about 2000 men lost, which would've been a
>pretty bad defeat for the Romans.

	Sounds about right. Once academics used to say that the 9th was
destroyed
in the revolt but it turns up in Dalmatia and later Judea during the Bar
Kochba revolt of 131-132AD when it again gets mauled (1500 to 2000 lost
if
I calculated correctly). The Romans took heavily losses in Britain but
not
castastrophic. 

>
>>	She ruled Palmyra. Odenathus, her predessor, 
>
>Um... husband.
>

	Umm, you could be right here. I check my sources again (which I
haven't
read for years) in about a month after my thesis is due. If you are
right
then deffinately rule out Zenobia as a combat leader, Odenathus knew his
stuff.

	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au

>Regards,
>
>Oerjan Ohlson
>oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com
>
>"Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
>- Hen3ry
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