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177- The Burning Ships

The History of Rome

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Leo's Conquest of the Roman Empire

Under pressure from his wife, leo agreed to put her brother in charge of the war. The east had sent armies west to keep a lid on the vandals at least twice before. This was not about negotiation. This was about conquest. They say that 11 hundred ships bearing a hundred thousand men set sail from constantinople in the spring of four 68.

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