09-07-2016, 02:41 PM
(09-07-2016, 01:40 PM)Renatus Wrote: The scenario as I see it is that Paulinus withdrew a short way up Akeman Street to a strategic position... he felt obliged to give battle before his reinforcements could arrive.
I agree with this, except that I think he withdrew initially to St Albans (which is why that otherwise-unsignificant place finds its way into Tacitus's account!). He perhaps intended reinforcements from the west or north-west to meet him there; when they did not he withdrew once more to the vicinity of either Tring/Newground or Dunstable/Manshead.
Nathan Ross