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177- The Burning Ships

The History of Rome

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Make Leo Look Bad - Basiliscus Is a Ding Bat

Gensark waited until the winds were right, and on the fifth day after ying off basiliscus, the vandal fleet set sail. Maybe basiliscus thought they were just abandoning the city, or maybe he realized that he had been duped. Either way, basiliscus is a ding bat. He is a jackass. The failed attempt to retake north africa nearly bankrupted the treasuries of both east and west. It would be 65 years before constantinople made another stabat retaking north africa after the failures of four 68. However, anthemius refused to simply give up the ghost and accept that being emperor of the west basically meant being the kind

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