Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

maybe it would make sense to do a big boat invasion from the Dee, landing somewhere more sympathetic like Red Wharf Bay.

Tacitus, Annals 14.29: "He therefore prepared to attack the island of Mona which had a powerful population and was a refuge for fugitives. He built flat-bottomed vessels to cope with the shallows, and uncertain depths of the sea. Thus the infantry crossed, while the cavalry followed by fording, or, where the water was deep, swam by the side of their horses."

So it looks like he did indeed ferry his troops at the narrowest point, where the cavalry could swim their horses across. These 'flat bottomed vessels' would not be much use in the open sea, I shouldn't think.

Love the graphic tho.