11-12-2015, 03:03 PM
Theodoric, mind the real name issue please!
As for the uprising itself, I agree that the campaign of Paulinus was very much of influence on the uprising. But was it planned that way? I mean, all that agonizing stuff about Boudicca being flogged and acting in revenge of her daughters blah blah - are you saying there's a chance this would never have taken place if the army had been at peace instead of on campaign? That the uprising might have been planned anyway?
(11-10-2015, 07:55 PM)Theoderic Wrote: Sorry Robert you misunderstand me. The Iceni rose in revolt because they had just been taken over as a Roman Province rather than being a Client Kingdom and had all their land and possessions subsumed into the Roman Empire.yes it seems we are in more agreement over this than I thought.
The timing of the uprising to match the Governor fighting 200 miles away was too much of a co-incidence not to have been planned.
As for the uprising itself, I agree that the campaign of Paulinus was very much of influence on the uprising. But was it planned that way? I mean, all that agonizing stuff about Boudicca being flogged and acting in revenge of her daughters blah blah - are you saying there's a chance this would never have taken place if the army had been at peace instead of on campaign? That the uprising might have been planned anyway?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
