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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(01-10-2016, 08:28 PM)John1 Wrote: he didn't see it as a good place to make a stand. 

And the inhabitants didn't see it as a good place to linger... which strongly suggests they were expecting an imminent attack from a force large enough to threaten ten thousand Roman legionaries, auxiliaries and cavalry... If the Britons were not approaching London in force, Paulinus would not have gone there and evacuated it. I can see no other sensible reading of this!


(01-10-2016, 08:28 PM)John1 Wrote: he could hold a position north on Wating Street to gather his forces and strike at Iceni territory from the North West.

So who's striking at whom now? He wants to strike at them, but instead waits around and then they strike at him? I think you're letting your imagination run away with itself!


(01-10-2016, 08:28 PM)John1 Wrote: mustering a force of the scale he suggests... would have taken time

Even longer if they all went home first, of course...


(01-10-2016, 08:28 PM)John1 Wrote: it's unlikely they would have broken off a route march and gone straight into contact.

Not sure if I understand what you're saying here. Of course, if Paulinus is blocking or threatening the route of their march, they don't have much choice about it...


(01-10-2016, 08:28 PM)John1 Wrote: that sounds like paradise


"We're trying to find a sitter for our seven kids, to cover two months of righteous mayhem and plundering of the imperialist oppressors. We can pay half a cow"

(Message in the Thetford Gazette, planting season, AD61)
Nathan Ross
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 01-10-2016, 08:53 PM

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