Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

The only problem with this argument is that on the one hand we have a mob plundering between Colchester and London for some days and yet on the other hand this same horde is an organised force marching towards Cerialis to give him battle and defeating him.

Nathan has already dealt with this. I see no need to repeat what he has said.

If the Ninth marched down the Via Devana and was attacked face to face by the Brythons this would not have been on the way to London from Colchester but rather a victorius army returning home.

The problem with a thread that has been going on for as long as this one is that arguments previously made get forgotten. This point has already been answered. This was not a little local difficulty but a major uprising. Before setting off on her campaign, Boudicca set about enlisting the support of the British tribes generally to throw the Romans out of the province. If she wanted to retain that support, she had to carry the campaign forward, not return home after one success.

Good point but this destroys the “London dash” theory.

I don't think anyone in this thread has supported the 'London dash' theory.

The rebels didn’t arrive in London until after Seutonius Paulinus left.

But how long after? An hour, twelve hours, a day, two days, a week? We do not know but, as I have said, it need not have been very long.

Previous Brythonic armies moved equally as swiftly as the Roman Army for the previous 18 years so why is it assumed that this army was any slower?

Wives and wagons, perhaps.