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Often appears with: vandals · supply, logistics, and encampment · roman response to the vandal threat · naval warfare and sea power · genseric’s naval power · empire and the rule of provinces
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Gibbon explains how the separation of Africa weakened Rome and how Genseric’s Vandals, after building a navy using Mount Atlas timber, resumed Mediterranean raids and provoked Roman defenses.
Sack Of Rome By Genseric, King Of The Vandals.—His Naval Depredations.—Succession Of The Last Emperors Of The West, Maximus, Avitus, Majorian, Severus, Anthemius, Olybrius, Glycerius, Nepos, Augustulus.—Total Extinction Of The Western Empire.—Reign Of Odoacer, The First Barbarian King Of Italy. The loss or desolation of the provinces, from the Ocean to the Alps, impaired the glory and great…