Why did Queen Boudica fight the Romans and why did other tribes help her?

Answer 1

Short answer is that the Roman army was better trained and better armored than Queen Boudicca's army which was more of a rabble.

Detailed history: Boudicca was queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia, a peninsula of eastern England. Her dying husband, Prasutagus, left half of his possessions to Rome in order to ensure his kingdom would be protected. The Romans didn't entirely hold up their side of the bargain. They entered the kingdom and helped themselves to all that was left. When Queen Boudicca protested she was flogged, her teenage daughters were raped and the Iceni were driven off their land.

Joining together with other neighboring tribes she managed to field a force of around 120,000 men, and fought her way through Southern Britain, burning Verulamium, Colchester and London. It is estimated her force killed around 70,000 Roman settlers and sympathizers.

Her final moments came somewhere in the Midlands area of Britain, where upon suffering a massive defeat she persuaded her daughters to drink 'hemlock', before taking the poison herself, rather than fall into the hands of the Romans.

The why did she lose?

After fighting settlers and and smaller Roman forces, Boudicca's large mob army was more than just fighting men, the army was followed by women, children, the whole population was behind it. When they were defeated, this rabble army met a veteran force of Roman soldiers. The Roman force was much smaller, and likely the Celts expected them to run, however these Romans had won other battles when they were outnumbered, they trusted their general, and they had a tactic of fighting in locking shields into a long wall and using their short swords to poke past the shields. The Celts were not that disciplined and were also a mix of young novice fighters, older men, etc. So when the armies met and the Romans pushed the Celts back into their own carts and followers, they had no room to maneuver.

Answer 2

She didn't have "soldiers" - she had people willing and armed and able to fight. The Romans had an army of trained and disciplined soldiers. Trained and disciplined will almost always beat willing and able - even when outnumbered.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

she fought the Romans because they wipped her raped her daughters and they took over her land/village