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Often appears with: visigoths · conquest, plunder, and captives · riothamus · rhine frontier · odoacer · mobilization and recruitment · empire and the rule of provinces · diplomacy and embassies · clermont defense · battle and tactics
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Gibbon narrates how the Vandals and Visigoths pressed against Roman authority: Genseric’s alliances after Attila, then Euric’s campaigns in Spain/Gaul, the defense of Clermont, and the arrival and destruction of British troops in Berry.
l. xiv. p. 50, 51.) Montesquieu (Considerations sur la Grandeur, &c., c. xx. tom. iii. p. 497) has made a judicious observation on the failure of these great naval armaments.] During his long and active reign, the African monarch had studiously cultivated the friendship of the Barbarians of Europe, whose arms he might employ in a seasonable and effectual diversion against the two empires. After the…
After Odoacer ends the Western empire, he negotiates with Euric, king of the Visigoths, ceding Roman lands beyond the Alps to him; Gibbon frames Euric’s rise as shaping events across France.
4 (return) [ Sidonius Apollinaris ridicules, with affected wit and pleasantry, the hardships of his situation, (Carm. xii. in tom. i. p. 811.)] As soon as Odoacer had extinguished the Western empire, he sought the friendship of the most powerful of the Barbarians. The new sovereign of Italy resigned to Euric, king of the Visigoths, all the Roman conquests beyond the Alps, as far as the Rhine and th…