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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
"why trek all that way to fight a battle at a site of the Romans' choosing"
why not? IF the whole Iceni gang is moving as a whole from point to point, why not raid all the way up to the Nene then float home on the river. I seem to recall a sausage of this nature a while ago. That makes at least as much sense as an up down to Dunstable. Although I'm still not of the view they were one big cohesive host. We know from Tacitus it was fought on ground of Romans choosing so somehow the Iceni moved out of their homeland and fought on the ground of Roman choosing. We're just quibbling again about how far up the corridor he went and within the scope of a single days march. Whatever works for Dunstable in these terms works for CS.

"Paulinus knew very well what London looked like already"
But he still went for a look anyway, then bails out, so what was he looking for? and what, or the lack of what, changed his mind? and sent him back up Watling Street to either Dunstable or CS?

"If his army was stationary somewhere in the Midlands this would not have been possible."
but it was possible to assess whether it was worth bringing them down or if the enemy were far enough away to allow him the time to make the place defendable, was the decision based on the reports of the distance and size of the enemy? Were the enemy so close to London that he had to abandon for a better site, and if so close how far would he have to go at speed? I have no problem with the whole army being with Paulinus in London, I just don't think it's proven, and if they all turned tail and headed to beyond Dunstable I don't see why they could't have gone from Bedfordshire a short hop over the border to Northamptonshire, it's hardly deep Midlands.
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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 John1 - 11-30-2015, 03:59 PM

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