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

But while we have access to this technology, Paulinus had nothing of the sort. He didn't even have an accurate road-map as we would understand it. All he had to plan his campaign and find his battle site was the evidence of his own eyes, the reports of scouts and a sort of itinerary of distances by road. So we can (I think) narrow down the range of options quite considerably, based on a wider interpretation of the shape of the campaign and the sort of locations Paulinus might have considered.

I think that Nathan has perhaps hit the nail on the head with this statement.

Seutonis Paulinus had to react to an ever changing set of situations:

1. Rebellion behind his back
2. Betrayal by the Procurator
3. Destruction of the Capital City in the Province
4. Slaughter of one of his Legions (or part of)
5. Complete logistical re-think to get his troops down to the seat of the rebellion
6. Various parts of the country being up in arms
7. A review of the status of the rebellion
8. Disobedience of part of one of his Legions
9. A rescue mission for the citizens of London
10. Receiving re-inforcements to enable him to fight at the right time and place
etc.

(These are the words from a man who interviewed the man who was there at a privileged position in the very army that fought Boudica and not an interpretation)

It seems strange to me that the recent book (although I have not read it) implies that SP was in London without his army when somehow he takes the refugees away with him.....

Also there really aren't any obvious places for battle with the topography described near Staines, Virginia Water also has its flaws as does Silchester but it does not mean that Staines and Silchester were not attacked as part of the rebellion.

As for the other comments from Renatus about the book, I agree with Nathan's views....

John 1 wrote:

I'd still like to see Steve's techniques used to test the nominated sites, i.e. if the site was Dunstable what would the criteria have to be for the GIS model to come up with that as the top result, and how would those criteria differ to CS coming up as the optimum candidate.


I'd like to include Tring in that list! but I am possibly biased Smile

Kind Regards - Deryk
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
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Deryk - 09-07-2013, 08:26 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

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