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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(12-04-2015, 07:01 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: I got the discussion of it from here

Are you having the same trouble with Google Books as I am? Where there is a preview of a book and I click on it, I get a page which evidently relates to it (there is a menu bar which includes a box with the page number in it) but which does not include an image of the page itself. If the book is out of copyright and there is a facility to download it, I can do so but, if it is still in copyright and there would be only a partial preview, I get nothing and am completely stymied. I do not seem to have the same problem where there is only a snippet view.

(12-04-2015, 07:01 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: That was the way I understood it originally, before I started thinking about this planting business! However, the 60-61 dating seems to make more sense of Paulinus keeping his army 'under canvas' after the battle (rather than returning them to their barracks for the winter) and building new winter camps. If the revolt begins in April, Paulinus must have moved against Mona very early in the year, and the 'final' battle can hardly have been later than June.

The idea that the army spent the winter sub pellibus possibly originated with Dudley and Webster. Tacitus says only that the army was brought together and kept in tents to finish off the war, in other words, perhaps, that it remained in campaign mode; there is no mention of winter in that context. Of course, if Dio is right and a large number of the rebels escaped and remained under arms, initially because they intended to carry on the revolt but later because they were afraid to surrender, the army could well have been kept 'under canvas' though the winter, at least until Turpilianus arrived and took the heat out of the situation.

I suppose that, when I mentioned the revolt breaking out in March or April, what I really meant was that it was at that time that the circumstances arose that culminated in the revolt and that, accordingly, it was then that the Iceni decided that there would be no need for the spring planting. We have between us previously suggested a timeline in which Paulinus began his Welsh campaign at the beginning of May and the open revolt started at about the same time. You had the final battle taking place in mid- to late-June and Turpilianus arriving to take over the governorship in March 62. Quite plausible, in my opinion.
Michael King Macdona

And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
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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 Renatus - 12-04-2015, 10:35 PM

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