Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Owein Walker]

Although even then Suetonius is passing through the margins of the enemy district rather than the middle of it, strictly speaking - but unless we see him detouring through Norfolk and Suffolk there isn't a completely satisfactory answer to who and where the hostes might have been.

I think we may have to allow for a little rhetorical exaggeration here.

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Is the general opinion that ALL the Catuvellauni were pro Roman? I have to say I am going to take some convincing.

I very much doubt whether Verulamium would have been made a municipium if the tribal leaders were not perceived to have been, at least to some extent, Romanised.  That is not to say that there were not some die-hards who hankered after the old days and who, if the sacking of Verulamium meant that the leaders were also overthrown, might have joined Boudica's cause.  However, that would be at a later stage of the rebellion, after Suetonius had moved away from the town.

One of the big questions has to be, Why didn't the residents of London and/or St Albans simply leave without military support if the area was pro Roman and safe? For London simply escape south or west, and St Albans head west.(Unless they are both attacked and surrounded at the same time which seems not to be the case)
I think there were winners and losers in the new Catuvellauni/Roman society, and suddenly the situation changed for everyone, no longer could people travel safely, fearing attack.