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In anger Boudicca swiftly assembled an army, said by some sources to number as many as 100,000 men, although the numbers were probably much lower. They laid waste to Colchester, London and Verulamium and achieved a fearsome reputation due to their treatment of their enemies. She also sacrificed hundreds of Roman women to the warrior goddess Andraste.

The Roman historian Dio Cassius, who lived a century after these events, described her:

"Boudicca was tall, terrible to look on and gifted with a powerful voice. A flood of bright red hair ran down to her knees; she wore a golden necklet made up of ornate pieces, a multi-coloured robe and over it a thick cloak held together by a brooch. She took up a long spear to cause dread in all who set eyes on her."

Eventually a numerically vastly smaller yet better equipped and far more organised Roman army led by Suetonius Paullinus defeated them. There is no consensus as to where the battle took place. According to London legend it was at Kings Cross (a nearby street is named Battle Bridge Road), but this is unlikely. As Suetonius rushed to London, presumably with his cavalry to see if he could save it, while his infantry marched home from defeating the Druids on Mona (modern day AngleseyAnglesey or Anglesea ( Welsh: Ynys Mon pronounced "Oh-niece Moan"), is an island and county off the northwest coast of Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. It is connected to the mainland by two br) it seems likely that the battle took place somewhere on the route between the 2 places and most authorities think the West MidlandsWest Midlands Region Admin HQ Birmingham Area Total 7th in England 13,004 km² Population Total ( 2001) Density 5th in England5,267,337405/km² NUTS 1:UKG The West Midlands is a geographical term describing the western half of central England, known as the the likeliest place. ManduessedumManduessedum was a Roman fort settlement in modern day Warwickshire in England. The fort was founded in around c AD 50- AD 60 on the Watling Street Roman road. The final battle between the rebel queen of the Britons Boudicca at the Battle of Watling Stree near the modern day town of AtherstoneAtherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England, with a population of around 12,000. The town is located near the northern most tip of Warwickshire. Atherstone has a long history going back to Roman times. An important defended Roman settlement named Mandue in WarwickshireWarwickshire (pronounced worrickshur) is a landlocked county in central England. Modern-day Warwickshire is of a considerably different shape to the historic county. The county town is Warwick. Famous people from Warwickshire include: William Shakespeare, has been suggested. TacitusThis article is about the historian Tacitus. For the Emperor Tacitus, see Marcus Claudius Tacitus. Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus 1 (c. 117), Roman orator, lawyer, and senator, is today remembered as one of antiquity's greatest historians. His major w estimated Roman casualties at 400 men, whilst Boudicca lost approximately 80000 men, women and children during the battle and in the slaughter that followed. He described how the Romans used the flying wedgeA charging technique where troops are arrayed to form a wedge or V shape. If the point of the wedge can breech the enemy line, the following troops can widen the gap. As successive ranks of the wedge engage, they can draw their opponents attention away fr formation, in which the front line is arranged in a line resembling the teeth of a saw - a solid body of men behind it to push the formation forward in unison.

Contradictory reports of Boudicca's death survive: if she did not die in battle, some accounts state that she committed suicideSuicide (from Latin sui caedere to kill oneself) is the act of ending one's own life. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful by poison rather than be captured; others assert that she died in a Roman prison cell.

Boudicca's fame endured in Britain for several centuries afterwards. Gildas alludes to her in his typically oblique fashion as a "treacherous lioness".

A statue of Boudicca, depicted as conceived in folk memory, with her two daughters astride a chariot with knives set into the wheel-hubs, stands in central London beside the river Thames, next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. It was made by Thomas Thornycroft in the nineteenth century.

According to popular legend, she is buried under one of the platforms at Kings Cross station. Different sources list platforms eight, nine or ten as her supposed resting place.