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According to Procopius, the Vandals came to Africa at the request of Bonifacius, the military ruler of the region. [10] However, it has been suggested that the Vandals migrated to Africa in search of safety; they had been attacked by a Roman army in 422 and had failed to seal a treaty with them.
The Vandals were a Germanic people who were first reported in the written records as inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman empire. Much later, in the fifth century, a group of Vandals led by kings established Vandal kingdoms first within the Iberian Peninsula , and then in the western Mediterranean islands , and ...
The Vandals as a rising power posed an enormous threat to the stability of the Roman Empire. [1] Piracy and plunder were a scourge, threatening trade throughout the Mediterranean. The Roman war effort from 466 onwards was aimed at the destruction of the Vandal Kingdom in order to restore the empire to its original territory. [2]
Visigoths had fewer cavalry, Ostrogoths had more cavalry than the Roman army, while Vandals were dominated by cavalry. [5] Cavalry mainly took the form of heavy, close combat cavalry armed with sword and lance. [4] Goths and likely Vandals as well favoured a long heavy lance of Sarmatian origin, the contus, which stood at 3
419 – Battle of the Nervasos Mountains – Western Romans and Suebi defeat Vandals and Alans. Roman–Sasanian War of 421–422 - The Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II declared war against the Persians and obtained some victories, but in the end, the two powers agreed to sign a peace on the status quo ante. Castinus' campaign against the Franks
The Vandal War (439–442) was a military conflict between the Western Roman Empire and the Vandals that was fought in the western Mediterranean Sea region.The main protagonists in this conflict were the Vandal king Geiseric and the commander-in-chief of the Roman army Aetius.
A Roman force under Manius Acilius Glabrio defeated Antiochus at the Battle of Thermopylae [147] and forced him to evacuate Greece: [154] the Romans then pursued the Seleucids beyond Greece, beating them again in naval battles at the Battle of the Eurymedon and Battle of Myonessus, and finally in a decisive engagement of the Battle of Magnesia ...
Since its founding in 395 AD, the Western Roman Empire was in a prolonged state of decline.One of its major issues was a mass migration of Germanic and other non-Roman peoples known as the Migration Period. which led to the sack of Rome in 410 by the Germanic Visigoths under Alaric. [2]