RMW2PB4H–A view of the ravine at Delphi, where the sanctuary was attacked by the Gauls after they overran Macedonia in 279 BCE . When the Gallic chieftain, Brennus, advanced through Macedonia to Greece he suffered heavy losses while trying to break through the Greek defense at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, on the east coast of central Greece. Eventually he found a way around the pass, but the Greeks escaped by sea. Brennus pushed on to Delphi, where he was wounded in battle and avoided capture by committing suicide.
RMW813T3–Vercingetorix (82 BC – 46 BC) was a king and chieftain of the Arverni tribe; he united the Gauls in a revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. At the Battle or Siege of Alesia, aka Alise-Sainte-Reine, now in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France, the Romans defeated his forces, and in order to save as many of his men as possible, he gave himself to the Romans. He was held prisoner for five years. In 46 BC, as part of Caesar's triumph, Vercingetorix was paraded through the streets of Rome and then executed by s
RMTRNX3A–The Gauls in Rome's legislature, after they defeated the Romans at the confluence of the Tiber and the Allia rivers. In late July 390 BCE, the undefended city fell to the North European invaders to be burnt and sacked. Only on the Capitol Hill, did a small number of Romans put up a valiant defense, holding out until famine forced them to surrender. The Romans were forced to pay the Gauls a hefty ransom of gold to depart. The Gauls too had been decimated, by starvation and malaria. To prevent their city from being sacked again, the Romans improved their military and strengthened the city wall.
RMW6RGW2–Gaius Marius (157 - 86 BCE), Roman general and statesman, Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars was noted for his important reforms of Roman armies. His politial and military rival, Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix or Sulla, Roman general proclaimed Marius a public enemy to be put him to death, but mo one could be found to undertake the task. The Gaul sent to kill the prisoner heard a loud voice: 'Fellow, darest thou kill Gaius Marius?' and threw down his sword, crying: 'I cannot kill Gaius Marius.' Marius was brought out of his prison and placed on board a ship for exile in Carthage
RMW515NT–Brennus (or Brennos) was a chieftain of the Senones in Rome. He defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Allia (18 July 390 BC) and in 387 BCE, led an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their attack on Rome and captured most of the city, holding it for several months. Brennus's sack of Rome was the only time in 800 years the city was occupied by a non-Roman army before the fall of the city to the Visigoths in 410 AD.
RMKGC83K–The ruins of medieval Pevensey Castle, formerly a Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum. The fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis and part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates.
RMKGC843–The Norman Keep of medieval Pevensey Castle, formerly a Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum. The fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis and part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates.
RMKGC83J–Visitors outside the medieval Pevensey Castle, formerly a Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum. The fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis and part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates.
RMKGC83G–Sheep outside the medieval Pevensey Castle, formerly a Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum. The fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis and part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates.
RMW5174M–A portrait of Publius Cornelius , (died 211 BCE), Roman general, consul provincial governor and a commander of the Roman expeditionary force in Spain, where he was sent to stop the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Delayed by a Gallic revolt in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy), Publius arrived at the Rhône River too late to prevent Hannibal’s crossing in 218. Later Scipio and his brother won important naval and land battles and inflicted severe losses on the enemy and it took three armies to defeat them, yet the three victorious Carthaginian generals could not agree on a plan to advance on Italy,
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