The Great Battles of All Nations From Marathon to the Surrender of Cronje in South Africa, 490 B.C. to the Present Day
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Roman fear disguised itself under the specious title of moderation, and the Rhine became the acknowledged boundary of the two nations until the fifth century of our era, when the Gj^ennaps became the assailants, and carved with their conquering swords the provinces of imperial Rome into the kingdoms of modep Europe. [Creasy. CHAPTER VII THE SACK OF ROME ALABIC THE GOTH— THE DECADENCE OF THE ETERNAL CITY 408—412 IN the beginning of the fifth century of the present era, a bar- barian pitched his ...camp under the walls of Rome. His name was Alaric. He was King of the Goths. Previously, during a period of six hundred and nineteen years, Rome had never been violated by the presence of a foreign enemy. The unsuccessful expedition of Hannibal is a case in point. At the beginning of the Punic war the Roman people consisted of two hundred and fifty thousand citizens of an age to bear arms. Fifty thousand had already died in the defense of their country; and the twenty-three legions, which were employed in the different camps of Italy, THE SACK OF ROME 147 Greece, Sardinia, Sicily, and Spain, required about one hundred thousand men.
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