Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

probably because the conquest of Mona was achieved more quickly than might have been expected.

Perhaps, yes. Echolands, I notice, puts Paulinus on the Mona strait early in AD60!

Although that same passage from Agricola could be read a different way: "Now even the gods are beginning to pity us, for they are keeping away the Roman general, and detaining his army far from us in another island" (qui Romanum ducem absentem, qui relegatum in alia insula exercitum detinerent) sounds rather like the Mona operation was taking longer than expected, and Paulinus might be 'detained' for most of the year.

How long would you expect the campaign might have taken, at its shortest? I would think the need to march all the way from (probably) Wroxeter, building roads and provisioning forts along the route, then building a fleet of barges, then the crossing itself and the conquest of a fairly large island, would not be the work of any less than two or three months.