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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
I believe that a consideration of the strategic shape of the campaign is possibly more useful than our attempts to accurately identify the site, which rely on a lot of variables
Strategic campaign issues are important, I'm learning a lot, however they will always be inconclusive and rest on a deep stratigraphy of opinions. This threads greatest value is that it has put 3 new candidate sites on the table, CS, Dunstable and Cunetio (ranked in order of credibility, you can choose to read left to right or right to left, you'll always be my second choice Nathan :evil: ) Personally I'd like to see more candidates being brought forward and discussed or dismissed, a filtering exercise, maybe 100 sites. Almost a retread of Steve scale of thinking but reversed into, with site first, parameters weighted second.

It is a possibility (but you would have to come down on the side of the Ninth being ambushed!)
I can still buy the ambush for what it's worth but have no firm view on Bartlow or Wandlebury they just provide good topographic speculations.

For me the main problem is the distance from London / St Albans, which is where Dunstable has the edge being only 30 miles from London but the topography doesn’t work for me. Of course Church Stowe is 65 miles from London (75 miles from Thetford) and Mancetter is nearer 100 miles from London.
London and St Albans happen to have been destroyed as part of this rising (I no longer think of it as a campaign from the Brit side) but weren't necessarily full scale actions, they could simply have been peripheral raids from a core location, or even Roman scorched earth. I would argue that the distance from Iceni territory could be a better "distance" issue to assess the sites credibility. Better muster for Iceni families, better threat posed by SP to the Iceni. If Betty didn't come to him he could just stroll into her back door and wreak havoc before his probable demise, going down fighting and doing damage to the Iceni core seems a better option to me than running to nowhere. Ready reckoning puts CS 85 miles, Dunstable 85 miles and Colchester 50 miles from a hub at Norwich. As opposed to Cunetio, about 140 miles, and Virginia water at about 110 miles. If you take supposed Iceni territorial limits the closest is CS at about 40 miles.....so distance problem? what distance problem for anywhere but the West?

Perhaps we need to analyse the areas around Virginia water. I'm pretty sure Nathan has done a good job on this already.
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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
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
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by John1 - 11-06-2012, 07:49 PM

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