I shall never forget that ignoble instant when, as a very small boy, I was brutally informed that Queen Boadicea's name is more accurately rendered as Boudicca. Is was rather like discovering that Cleopatra's was actually known as Cykovadge or something. Needless to say, at that moment my relationship with the busty charioteeress changed forever. No longer was beautiful Boadicea the model of feminine regal courage to whom I would give my fealty (and other things). She was now ugly Boudicca, the blue-faced tomboy with hairy armpits.
With the exception of Philip 'Caesar' Matyszak, author of the excellent 'Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day,' namby-pamby modern historians are always attempting to negatively revise our concepts of that foreign country called the past and the shining heroes who prospered there. In the politically correct hands of these humorless revisionists gilded ages becomes dirty decades and once mighty empires are reduced to the status of mere nationalistic asset strippers. Were you aware, for example, that Napoleon soiled his own underpants before the battle of Austerlitz? ... See, even I've started doing it now!
A note on the text: There is absolutely no evidence at all that Napoleon "followed through" at Austerlitz, unless we are speaking militarily.
