12-01-2018, 11:41 PM
"That would be the Iceni commando brigade that Boudica had cunningly left behind for the particular purpose of attacking the Roman rear, while advancing against Colchester with all the strength she could muster?..." No that would be most of the force that had done Colchester and the IX who had returned home with plunder whilst war bands burned a poorly defended and deserted London and St Albans whose garrison had joined Paulinus in returning up Watling Street.... weren't Commandos a lot later or is this a vague ref to the Boer/Dutch potential common ancestry with the Iceni
"You and your ditched enclosures!..." well they seem to have been pretty important to people with swords 2000 years ago.
"But I believe it is you that is the true 'paradista', with your great communal procession across the Wash and into the Midlands!" ok I'll say it slowly, big force of a combined set of bands approaching from the south, others potentially coming form the east along the Nene, a route which also gave Paulinus the opportunity to threaten an advance into Iceni territory
"Heaven forfend!" exchange "I'm" for "You're" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPhzgxe3L0
"You and your ditched enclosures!..." well they seem to have been pretty important to people with swords 2000 years ago.
"But I believe it is you that is the true 'paradista', with your great communal procession across the Wash and into the Midlands!" ok I'll say it slowly, big force of a combined set of bands approaching from the south, others potentially coming form the east along the Nene, a route which also gave Paulinus the opportunity to threaten an advance into Iceni territory
"Heaven forfend!" exchange "I'm" for "You're" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPhzgxe3L0
