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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Nathan wrote:

It was also an army supply dump: the destruction layer dating to the revolt includes substantial quantities of burnt grain originating from the continent. So the Britons could have combined business with pleasure, so to speak, in destroying the place (unless, as I believe, Paulinus did it first by torching the grain stores, with the fire spreading to the civilian settlement).

I agree with you re SP torching London as part of a scorched earth poliocy and expect that he did the same to St Albans before leaving on his way to London.

Nathan wrote:

The Roman road from Longthorpe/Leicester doesn't appear to pass through Iceni territory, and if Cerealis was heading directly and rapidly to Colchester he surely wouldn't have paused to harass the natives. That being the case, I don't really see why anyone would assume he was going anywhere except Colchester - and since there was a large rebel force already there, it's most obvious to assume that they, or a subgroup of them, were the ones who ambushed the ninth.

I think that the route he would have taken was the direct one to Colchester which crosses the Inknield Way at Linton (near John's Bartlow site) near Sturmer right on the edge of Iceni territory. In fact this point is about 30 miles from both Thetford and Colchester.

I have an alternate theory which I would like to paint....

Boudica and the Iceni take back their lands and mount patrols along their borders.

The Trinovantes make a note of Boudica's success and do the same and attack Colchester and after two days destroy the Capital of the new Province and take back the farms that havebeen seeded to the Roman Vets.

The Ninth are interecepted by the Iceni and destroyed. Both the Iceni and the Trinovantes await the attack that they are expecting (if they go to London they leave their homelands open to attack by the Roman Army) along a wide front.

SP retreats.

Boudica, the Iceni and the Trinovantes rush their limited strike forces to cut him off as they now realise that his re-inforcements are not coming and they can beat him.

Boudica goes to St Albans via Dunstable and the Trinovantes to their old port Londinium but they miss him and the food and the arms.

The strike forces now have to wait for food as they haven't got enough and a decision is made to continue to pursue SP and his small army.....



When they get there he is no longer there
Deryk
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Deryk - 08-22-2012, 03:33 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM

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