The great "Crossing of the Rhine".
On 31 December 406 the Rhine border collapsed unleashing vast hordes of people into the empire.
A 409 AD letter by St Jerome writes: "Savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun all parts of Gaul. The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni"
Another contemporary, Orientus, states that "All Gaul was filled with the smoke from a single funeral pyre" and that the Barbarians "indulged in an orgy of destruction in the Gallic provinces."
Jerome lists that by 409 AD the cities of Mainz, Worms, Rheims, Amiens, Arras, Thérouanne, Tournai, Speyer and Strasbourg have been pillaged or destroyed. "Moguntiacum [=Mainz] has been captured and destroyed. In its church many thousands have been massacred." On southern Gaul he adds that it was "with the exception of a few cities one universal scene of desolation. And those which the sword spares without, famine ravages within."
In late 409 the Vandals, Alans,& Suebi would cross the pyrenees into Spain, by 410 AD Roman Britain would be abandoned with emperor Honorius telling British cities to "look to their own defenses."
First poster for Paul Greengrass' ‘THE UPRISING’, starring Andrew Garfield.
The film follows a man who forms a rebellion in England against the tyranny of King Richard II.
In theaters on September 11.
Greta Thunberg: “It is shameful that those who are protesting against genocide are being repressed, while the real war criminals walk free and get away with mass slaughtering... Free Palestine, the fight will not stop.."
Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.
It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.
The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.
And it passed anyway.
Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.
They lost the vote. They won the law.
That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl