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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Lovely maps, thank you.
 
"Chapter 33. [Suetonius abandons London to the Boudiccan forces.]

Suetonius, undismayed by this disaster, marched through the heart of the country as far as London; a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce. At that place he meant to fix the feat of war; but reflecting on the scanty numbers of his little army, and the fatal rashness of Cerealis, he resolved to quit the station, and, by giving up one post, secure the rest of the province."

 
This certainly points to the whole force getting to London, or at least part way, but it still doesn’t entirely rule out Paulinus taking the view on the basis of an advanced recce of which he may have been a part. Do you have a better translation?
 
“then he'd already made the decision not to fight at London”
not necessarily, they may have just been a couple of days up the road awaiting their comrades and re-provisioning, after all he was a cautious commander.
 
“Marching camps, yes. But fighting from inside fortifications was not Roman practice”
I still have no objection to this, ridge-top camps and an engagement in the confines of the CS valley is fine by me.
 
“so could only investigate the margins of the proposed battle area”
Given the re-grading of the Manshead playing field that was probably their best bet, so it stands another un-provable site.
 
 “the lack of finds should not discount any site”
No it should not, but with no investigable site it just becomes a matter of opinion, which is where we are at with Dunstable. So we either accept Dunstable as it, or continue debating with D in the same unproven but opinionated bag as Mancetter/Paulerpury/Arbury etc. etc. Finds, whether artifacts or marching camps would however come as a big bonus to any site.
 
Dunstable to Church Stowe is a mere 27 miles, that’s one march away, and a far better bet strategically and topographically for Paulinus.
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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
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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
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RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by John1 - 11-30-2015, 02:29 PM

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