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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · river crossing · germans flee · conquest, plunder, and captives
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As the smoke signals raids in progress, Germans break morale, flee across the river Maine, and the Romans plunder farms, cattle, and prisoners while burning houses in Roman style.
camp which he had thus occupied without hindrance, in a way that could hardly have been hoped for, required, nevertheless, to be fortified with mural engines and other adequate equipments. 13. Trusting to this truce, three of the most ferocious of those kings who had sent reinforcements to their countrymen when defeated at Strasburg, came to him, though still in some degree of alarm, and took the oaths according to …