Will Rome's northern frontier fall? - Battle of Watling Street, 60 AD

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I am always impressed how the Roman sources were so willing to call out the fact that many of these wars and revolts were incited by the greed and avarice of their fellow Roman elites. ‘Create a dessert and call it peace.’

One of the greatest defensive, pitched battles in history. I mean, imagine the adrenaline of those Romans afterwards, when it was starting to come down. Realizing 10k of them slaughtered tens and tens of thousands. Must have been one HELL of a speech from Paulinus before the battle.

"A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house" -Socrates I think this quote is very fitting for boudica's rebellion

Rome at its height, with competent commanders must have been terrifying. This battle was an absolute slaughter. What was the legion in battle called? A meatgrinder?

The flaccid sword image got me 😂😂😂

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Paulinus knew that he would be the butt of jokes in Rome if he lost to a woman. It wasn't happening on his watch.

The Romans had already experienced a somewhat similar scenario against Hannibal at Cannae particularly in the total numbers of casualties on each side. And the legions here were not just a mob of individuals without organization. Thank you so much for this fine production of a battle that i have always been interested in !!!

Even if paulinus had real troops. The ratio was still crazy. I don't get why some people thinks that boudica is more dangerous than vercingetorix. Becuse the sacking of the settlements wasn't all that impresive. No competent military leader, just numbers.

I used to live in St Albans. You can still walk the roman walls and even clearly see the London gate, one larger entry for horse and cart and two smaller on either side for foot. Really cool. Verulamium is actually really small, the walls fit easily in to the city park. There is a place you can see the mosaic and under floor heating in one of the larger houses. But, what did the romans ever do for us…..? Hahaha

I find it laughable to see people say Boudica is one of Rome's greatest enemies. She did start a rebellion no doubt and had some success. But she mostly attacked small settlements and isolated camps. Plus the Battle of Watling Street... the only battle she ever fought saw her use a strategy that not only decimated her army but ended the rebellion with terrible redemption from the Romans. She made an effort but it hardly was a challenge.

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As a Brit, this hurts to see. As a Roman fanboy, can't get enough...

Her (Boudica's) first REAL Battlefield command and she was utterly obliterated.. A very poor leader of men in battle. Totally inept and it cost her and her people EVERYTHING.

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Good as ever. I liked the way that you depicted the land with its coastline as it was then, rather than using a modern map of Britain.

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Goes to show that numbers don't mean everything.

key moment was when the disciplined Roman legionaries formed several large wedge formations which pushing forward tore through the massed unprepared ranks of their opponents