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

.....this allows more time for all the events in the aftermath to take place, i.e., for Paulinus to carry out his campaign of retribution, for the reinforcements from the Continent to arrive, for for Classicianus to be appointed to replace Catus, to travel to Britain, make his assessment of the effect of Paulinus' actions and to make his recommendations, and for Polyclitus and his entourage to travel to the province, investigate the situation and to return to Rome to present his report. It also suggests that Turpilianus could not have arrived in Britain to replace Paulinus before mid-March 62.


I would have thought that Polyclitus arrived in mid-March 62 and Paulinus had the go ahead to continue the campaign in the new campaign season but unfortunately the disaster with the ships called for a new Governor.  

I understood that the consuls resigned half way through the year in imperial times which would allow for Turpilianus to arrive in August AD62 if that is correct.

Nathan Ross wrote:

I preferred the longer timescale as it required less shoehorning of events into tight spaces, but, as I say, I'm more inclined to the shorter version now (as I was before!).

You have now convinced me that for the warehouses to be full of wheat, unless the Roman Towns were supplied from abroad, the uprising started after the harvest was gathered in by both the Iceni and the Romans.

I think that the rebellion started in September which fits the wheat comments by Tacitus and allows 3 months for the major battle, the autumn / winter campaign,  the arrival of the reinforcements and the building of Winter Quarter all in AD61 but that the other events (Polyclitus and the disastrous loss of the ships were in AD62 with the replacement Governor arriving around August 62 and Paulinus back in Rome by September AD62

(Not really sure that these scenarios really change the actual battle site)

Cheers - Deryk
Deryk
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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 Theoderic - 12-06-2015, 06:37 PM

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