Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

So, St.Albans wasn't ransacked?

Of course it was - after London. As Tacitus tells us: 'a similar disaster befell the town of Verulamium'.

So Suetonius had no problem building a camp to hold London.

Whyever would he do a thing like that? The last thing he'd want to do was build a fort so the enemy could besiege him with their overwhelming numbers.

Roman commanders only fought from behind fortifications when they had no other options - and Suetonius, as all this discussion proves, had several other options.

stop all this nonsense that the Thames, one of the best defensive walls in Britain ... was ignored by Suetonius

It was also ignored by Tacitus and by Dio, who mention nothing about rivers, fords, or defensive walls.

the nonsense that started with the insane Gallop down Watling Street... this ridiculous mad dash up Watling street... the stupidity of the first narrative of a dash down Watling street...

Hang on now - is it a dash up Watling Street or down Watling Street that you find so insane, ridiculous, stupid and nonsensical - or both, perhaps?

As far as I can see, you are the only person here saying anything about 'mad dashes' in either direction!

It's only to the NW of London that we get the hills which produce the Ravines necessary to fit the battle site description. So, people needed to find an excuse for Suetonius to head NW ...

Take a moment to think about the logic of that statement...