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Flogging was a punishment that could be ordered for several crimes. In earlier days, it was rare to send someone to jail for an extended time, they usually received a punishment that was carried out quickly. Flogging was usually for a serious crime.

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How did boudicca feel about being flogged?

Obviously not very good... she was rather humiliated and very angry.


What happens to the captives who try to get the extra fish the slave traders caught in the life of olaudah equiano?

They are caught and flogged.


What happened when boudicca protested against the Romans?

what diid the romans do that they killed her mum and she was in the present and her two daughter went to sex with some and the stole all the money from their six person While the Roman army was busy on the northwest coast of Wales-Boudica led a revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (Colchester) an ex capital of a Celtic tribe turned into a Roman colony for discharged Roman soldiers. She routed a Roman legion sent to relieve the colony. She burned Londinium (London, which had been evacuated) and Verulamium (St Albans). She was then defeated the Roman army that had reassembled its contingents for around the province.


What was the Roman scourge used for and how was it implemented as a form of punishment during ancient times?

The Roman scourge was a whip-like instrument made of leather straps with sharp pieces of metal or bone attached to the ends. It was used for punishment and torture in ancient Rome. The victim would be tied to a post or flogged while standing or lying down, causing severe pain and often leaving lasting scars. The scourge was typically used on slaves, criminals, and prisoners as a form of discipline or to extract information.


What is the rubber terror?

Millions of Africans were tortured and murdered to maintain control and to terrorise the survivors. The rubber part comes from the rubber plantations that were the sites of the abuses. Many had hands cut off or were flogged (sometimes to death) for failing to meet their daily quota for harvesting rubber. Others were starved and worked to death.

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A sentence with the word flogged?

The slave was flogged on the deck.I flogged the watch for a tenner. (Flogged = British slang for sold).He ordered the soldier to be flogged for his desertion.


How can you use the word flogged in a sentence?

He was flogged for his insolence.


What does flogged means?

Flogged means whipped, or lashed, in the sense of physical punishment with a whip.


How can you put flogged in a sentence?

In the past a form of punishment for a criminal was to have them flogged.


What was Baseball Great Flogged MrCoffee?

Joe dimmagio


What does flogged around in fleet mean?

"Flogging around the fleet" was a punishment were an offender would be taken to each ship in a fleet and flogged on each in front fo the ship's crew.


Did the bride well workhouse treat inmates well?

No. Inmates were subject to an austere regime of hard work and corporal punishment. It was normal for new inmates to be flogged on arrival, and for leaving inmates to be flogged upon discharge. These were in addition to any floggings they might have received during their stay. Adult inmates of both sexes were stripped to the waist and flogged on the bare back with the cat'o nine tails. Juvenile inmates of both sexes were flogged with the birch on the bare buttocks.


What happened to roman deserters?

If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.If a deserter from the Roman army were found, he was flogged and then crucified. Roman soldiers were the only citizens who could be crucified.


What is a sentence for flog?

To flog someone is a terrible punishment for that person. As he needed money and had read them all, he decided to flog his magazine collection.


How were false starters in the ancient olympic games punished?

they were flogged or whipped


What do you suppose Christian was rebuked but not flogged for his supervision of the men on Tahiti?

He had a lackadaisical attitude


What happens if you break the school rules on Tudor times?

You would be flogged with the birch.