10-15-2013, 01:24 PM
Quote:The Salian franks were driven back across the Rhine and that border was secured by 446.
Evan, I already posted about that in the Terp Trizum thread: you may be wrong there. Aetius won a victory, but he did not drive them across the Rhine. They had been there since Julianus allowed them to settle in the area and they were federates under Aetius afterwards. Merovech and Childeric are from that group, right? Their powerbase was in Toxandria and Paris shortly afterwards.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
