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

And this is my problem with the Tring site - in order to compel an attack through the defile, there must not have been any other avenue of approach available. Whereas, at Tring, there are a few...

We know that there are many variables:

1. The size of the Brythonic Army
2. The reason that the Brythons left their homelands
3. The refugees with SP
4. SP’s decisions after London
5. Where the Roman re-inforcements came from
etc. etc. etc

The solution to the site location relies on many factors including a combination of the above and also how the battle was fought

That keeps everything open.....

Everyone takes Tacitus’ description as being the only option yet Dio is quite specific about the battle and perhaps the site needs to be able to provide for both descriptions.

Tring, I believe does this.

Although perceived wisdom is that by narrowing his front SP and preventing being outflanked can win him the battle, in reality although this is great for defence it is not easy to turn the defence into attack without being surrounded and destroyed when venturing out of the defile.

Also as Nathan says this option also allows for SP to be outflanked.

If however the whole of the site is defended in such a way that SP can extend his line safely as he attacks, this would be valid.

So rather than look at one valley it is possible to have 3 forces in 3 valleys and also using the platea next to Valley 2.

We should also not ignore that the site could and probably was defended by ditches, calthrops, stakes, etc. which would stop natural ingress

Along the whole length of the plateau runs Grimms Ditch. This could have easily been redug as a defence to prevent any outflanking manoeuvres by the Brythons.



The Brythons would then have attacked seeing that the Romans were bottled up in the valleys which they may well have known about.....


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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 Deryk - 03-10-2015, 10:23 PM

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