Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

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I cannot with my rudimentary Latin comment on the translation. However, the conjecture that the inhabitants who were slaughtered stayed put only because the bridge was destroyed appears to lack supporting text or archaeological evidence. (If I am wrong please correct me.) Tacitus' account has been repeated several times. It is a fact of warfare, current and in antiquity, that a significant proportion of the population flee but some stay put for a variety of reasons - stubbornness, illness, frailty, age, nowhere to go, caring for family, protecting property, family there for generations and many more reasons. So bridge or no bridge they stayed. We have seen this on TV in the current war in Ukraine, my son saw it in Afghanistan, I saw it in Iraq, my father saw it in WW2, grandfather saw it in WW1. No doubt Suetonius, Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander, Agamemnon, Genghis Khan, Attila and countless others before and since saw it.