Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

... are you suggesting they are not forts? Clearly we have to rewrite all Roman history...

Building a fortification as a supply base or to camp while on the march is quite different to 'getting behind a secure wall' when attacked.

Suetonius Paulinus did not build or seek a fort from which to fight his battle. He fought in the open, as most Roman commanders did in this period. No 'rewriting of history' is required.

having studied the hydrology of thames, probably in more detail than anyone else

Then you will know all about the ancient ford at Cliffe, the ford at Lambeth, and the ford at Brentford (where the water was only 3 feet deep at ebb tide as late as 1695)?

The Thames in the Roman period was probably 10-15 feet shallower than it is today.

with the north up in revolt

The revolt was in East Anglia, not the north.

"There were no Roman fortresses in south east England." ... which proves that Romans only had fortresses where they had friends?

This is surely not a matter of controversy. There were no Roman fortresses in the area of southeast England at this point. What that might or might not prove is up to you.

I never suggested the Belgae were allies.

"the friendly pro-roman Belgae tribes" suggests allies, no?

they have to pretty insane to walk into the area they do not control, without their calvary support, without the ability to know what is happening, and without secure supply lines.

Walking into areas they do not control is what armies commonly do in wartime. Paulinus had cavalry support, he had scouts, and nothing (aside from your own inventions) suggests that he was cut off from his supply lines.

I'm not sure, by the way, if all the bizarre stuff about duck ponds, mobile phones etc is simply intended to be funny - sometimes these things do not come across all that well in this medium!