Mentz to rhine posts

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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege and fortification · rhine crossings · julian’s infrastructure rebuilding · fortifications

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 secondary

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)
Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To > Chapter XIX: Constantius Sole Emperor.—Part IV. (6/11)

After securing German and Frankish settlements, Julian crosses the Rhine in three expeditions, grants truces, deters deception, and resumes building efforts, including repairing seven posts between Mentz and the Rhine mouth.

78 (return) [ Ammian. xvi. 12. Libanius, Orat. x. p. 276.] After Julian had repulsed the Alemanni from the provinces of the Upper Rhine, he turned his arms against the Franks, who were seated nearer to the ocean, on the confines of Gaul and Germany; and who, from their numbers, and still more from their intrepid valor, had ever been esteemed the most formidable of the Barbarians. 79 Alt…