(British) Celtic Queen Boudicca led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces nearly 2,000 years ago. She was also tall and had long red hair.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/boudicca.... Between AD 61 and AD 63 Boadicea led her Iceni people to a glorious but bloody war against the Romans. The Iceni Celts had submitted their kingdom in East Anglia to the conquering Romans and the rule of Emperor Claudius in AD 43. In AD 61, Prasutagus, Boadicea's husband and King of the Iceni died. A dispute followed during which Boadicea, was publicly beaten by the soldiers of the emperor, and her two daughters raped. The Iceni were insulted and rose in revolt led by their queen Boadicea. So successful was the uprising that the Romans were almost defeated. Unfortunately for the Iceni and their allies, the military skill of the Roman army finally led to the crushing of the rebellion.After the revolt, Roman rule was re-established. For almost two glorious years, Boadicea pillaged the Roman settlements; she remains to this day, the greatest of the heroines of Britain.
http://transsexy.geophys.mcgill.ca/~olivia/BOUDICA /
“Boudica was a Celt; not a Viking or a Greek. If Dio Cassius' picture of her is accurate, picture a tall woman with very long red hair, dressed in Celtic fashion. She wore a long, full skirt with a plaid or checked belted tunic over it. The heavy gold torc around her neck was a mark of her rank. She wore a mantle, probably hooded, that was pinned with a large brooch. The only other concessions to style or rank would have been a leather band, studded with gold, tied around her head and under her hair. It was also customary for Celtic women to gather some of their long hair into side plaits. As a high born Celt, Boudica knew how to handle a horse, or a war chariot. She may have been skilled with weapons, and no doubt had an immediate bodyguard of armed men that escorted her and her daughters anywhere on her campaign.”
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