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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 secondary

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…