Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

this allows more time for all the events in the aftermath to take place

It does, just about - the kind of large-scale cross-channel transportation required to bring thousands of reinforcements from the continent may not have been attempted outside of the 'safe navigation' period, but this was an emergency, so... perhaps. And at a push it could have been completed before the middle of September.

I preferred the longer timescale as it required less shoehorning of events into tight spaces, but, as I say, I'm more inclined to the shorter version now (as I was before!).

Potentially the Iceni expected to be back to harvest the winter crop by late July - they weren't, and Tacitus's comment about the missed spring planting was an attempt to shift blame onto them and so exonerate Paulinus for his severity in the counter-insurgency phase of his campaign.