01-10-2016, 04:16 PM
(01-10-2016, 02:20 PM)John1 Wrote: it doesn't mean... they were driven all the way from Norfolk
They would still have needed wagons to transport the plunder of Colchester; whether they seized them there or brought them from home is immaterial.
(01-10-2016, 02:20 PM)John1 Wrote: a scratch horde is probably advancing and foraging at their own marching pace with little central organisation.
Precisely!
There may well have been foragers or scouts moving ahead of the main body of rebels, but they would not have attacked a Roman force of ten thousand unsupported. Since we're talking about the speed it would have taken the main force to reach London from Colchester, and then the battle site from London, we must, as Michael says, base our estimates on the slowest elements.
What's this curious obsession with tea and packed lunches about anyway? Are you still thinking about your sausages?
Nathan Ross