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177- The Burning Ships

The History of Rome

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The Eastern Empire's Problem - The Vandals

Genseric was still hankering to get olebrius in power. With richimer refusing to listen, the vandal king decided to turn up the heat on constantinople. So genseric extended vandal piracy into eastern waters and started raiding greece. But mostly these new raids just made leo really, really mad because it was finally time to do something about the illegal vandal kingdom that had been squatting in roman north africa for the last 30 years.

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