Strasbourg AD 357 - The victory that saved Gaul
Raffaele D’Amato, Andrea Frediani
Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350-53 had left
the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations
along the Rhine - the Franks and Alemanni - took advantage of the
situation to cross the river, destroy the Roman fortifications
along it and occupy parts of Roman Gaul. In 355, the Emperor
Constantius appointed his 23-year-old cousin Julian as his Caesar
in the provinces of Gaul with command of all troops in the region.
Having recaptured the city of Cologne, Julian planned to trap the
Alemanni in a pincer movement, but when the larger half of his army
was forced into retreat, he was left facing a much larger German
force outside the walls of the city of Strasbourg. This new study
relates the events of this epic battle as the experience and
training of the Roman forces prevailed in the face of overwhelming
German numbers.
Paperback, 96 Seiten, durchgängig bebildert mit zeitgenössischen
Fotos, Farbillustrationen von Kampfsituationen, Karten und 3D
Operationsdiagrammen, engl. Text
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