Thread Rating:
  • 4 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Video 
Nathan wrote:

Having a single mass of wagons and carts and families acting as a sort of 'plug' sealing the main route of access to the site would form just as effective a barrier as the sort of enveloping screen that both Tacitus and Webster imply.

I see no reason why wagons couldn’t be surrounding the battle site, leaving the access point clear but this reinforces my point that the plain is contained by topography and not defined by the random placement of the wagons.

I agree with you that as the wagons fled the field through the only access point they could leave through, they created a “plug” which would have only grown bigger as more and more waggons reached the exit point.

No doubt many of the fighting Brythons would have rushed to the waggons to help and would have added to the chaos and the subsequent carnage as the Romans continued the slaughter.

Others (many of them) were able to leave over the hills on foot to regroup much later.   

Renatus wrote:

However, provided that the incline was not too steep, this might have been a problem that Suetonius was prepared to overlook, if the other advantages of the site demanded it.

The site has a slope of 15 metres in 0.41 of a mile towards the Roman army.


.pdf   PITSTONE HILL 11.pdf (Size: 89.47 KB / Downloads: 14)
 
Renatus wrote:

The wagons would have made retreat more difficult, as the Britons would have had to thread their way between them, but did not constitute an impenetrable barrier.  We know that a good number managed to escape and would have continued the fight had not the death of Boudica left then leaderless.  Incidentally, Tacitus does 'imply' that the wagons were a 'sort of enveloping screen', he says as much and we can't ignore him.

I agree with you and believe that this site allows for both scenarios.
Deryk
Reply


Messages In This Thread
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 - 03-09-2021, 11:13 PM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Armchair Wall walking mcbishop 3 3,480 01-11-2012, 03:22 AM
Last Post: Vindex

Forum Jump: