Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

you do know where Ivinghoe is relative to a line between London and Thetford is don't you??

Well, I may occasionally have looked at a map...

As we've discussed here before, Boudica's army could not have returned home by retracing their route, as they would have stripped the land bare along their line of march. As they've already moved north-west to St Albans, the logical route for them to take would be the Iknield Way, which would lead them through new territory where they could effectively live off the land.

By positioning his troops anywhere along the Iknield between Tring and Dunstable, Suetonius Paulinus would force the Britons to turn and fight him. Otherwise he would have been able to attack them from the flank or rear.