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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege and fortification · naval warfare and sea power · mentz to rhine posts · julian’s infrastructure rebuilding · fortifications · conquest, plunder, and captives · battle and tactics · arson raids · ambush and counterattack
Usually: narrative (2) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1)
After earlier threats, Julian’s Caesar secretly embarks 800 men to row upstream, land to burn and destroy, and the barbarians’ retreat leaves roads open to plunder.
circumstances altered their purpose) they immediately afterwards sent off some others with all speed, to threaten our troops with implacable war if they did not at once quit their territories. 4. And when this was known, the Cæsar, as soon as all was quiet, at the beginning of night embarked 800 men in some small swift boats, with the intention that they should row with all their strength up stream for some distance…
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…