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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(11-22-2015, 11:45 PM)Renatus Wrote: he had pressed on through the midst of the enemy (medios inter hostes).

Just a quick thought about this - as noted above, several forts were apparently built or recommissioned in the year or so following the revolt, at Mancetter, The Lunt, Wall in Staffordshire and Metchley near Birmingham, besides Towcester further south.

Could this suggest that the hostes that troubled Paulinus on his march south were precisely the people of this area (the Warwickshire/Staffordshire region), and the forts were built to help suppress them following Boudica's defeat?

I was thinking about John's suggestion of the Nene valley as a route for the Iceni - could it be that Iceni cultural and political influence was carried westwards along the Nene and into the Midlands, and so the people of this region joined in the revolt? The area concerned would seem to fit very well with this spread of forts.

(11-23-2015, 07:07 PM)Renatus Wrote: I think that all the legions except the Ninth were campaigning in Wales and that their bases, including Exeter, were manned only by the veterans, the western route seems less attractive.

Possibly so, yes. I still favour the northern route. But if Paulinus was unsure about the road north - perhaps with St Albans already fallen to the enemy - and looking for somewhere else to fall back, the route along the Portway could meet his needs.
I did come across this interesting map, giving some rough idea of the topography along the Portway just west of London:

Chobham Map

The Virginia Water site is just about where the road crosses the Bourne, I think. My proposed Bagshot site is directed west of Rapley Farm, where the road climbs onto the high ground of Chobham Ridges. Wickham Bushes could well have been a former fort site later settled as a town.
Nathan Ross
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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
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 11-23-2015, 09:06 PM

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