09-04-2013, 11:08 AM
Quote:he would be taking himself away from his major sources of reinforcement.
That's true. Mind you, we don't know that reinforcement was a priority for him. He couldn't hold London with ten thousand men, but he may have believed that such a force would be sufficient to defeat Boudica given a suitable position. Which, in fact, turned out to be the case.
It's a broad argument, but the route I suggested does lie between St Albans (where they were, conventionally speaking, last sighted) and the Iceni homeland. If Paulinus wanted to position himself between the Britons and their homes, he could have looked along that way...
Nathan Ross