Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[MonsGraupius]

All this action occurs in London!

Of course it does.  I don't know why you keep harping on about this; nobody has said anything different.  I repeat what Tacitus tells us.  The inhabitants of London who were overwhelmed by the rebels were those who could not leave because of sex or age or those who would not leave because of their attachment to the place.  None of them were going anywhere, bridge or no bridge, and you cannot use their fate to support your theory that Suetonius retreated south of the river.

Please! You are the one who is denying military logic!

We are told they were overwhelmed in London ... now please!!! Please! Please! Tell me how even a cripple cannot get the few hundred meters from London to the other side as your THEORY demands. It is just totally absurd. You're building your whole THEORY around an idea that people can't get across a 100m bridge and that Suetonius was such an ignorant Roman that he had no idea about the defensive benefit of th Thames.

Let you remind you who it was who couldn't walk across the 100m bridge:

chained to the spot by the weakness of their sex

WOMEN ... you would have us believe, that WOMEN .. were unable to walk down the bank to the bridge, across the bridge to the other side, where it merely takes a very small force to defend the bridge.

Are you seriously telling me WOMEN CAN'T CROSS A BRIDGE is that what your whole argument is based on ... a sexist view of women?

The only way that people can be overwhelmed in London which means not walking across a bridge, and when they have had plenty of warning as they clearly did ...  is if the bridge was demolished.

The only way a Roman general would demolish a bridge to the south, and to his supply lines, is if he is on the other side of that bridge.

Stop denying the facts! Suetonius went south across the river. That is the only thing that fits the text.