THIRD MILLENNIUM LIBRARY

HISTORY OF ROME

Civil War and Rebellion in the Roman Empire

A.D. 69-70

BY

BERNARD W. HENDERSON

CHAPTER I

THE CAMPAIGN OF OTHO AND THE VITELLIANS

1. The Origins of the Civil War

2. The Troops Engaged

3. The Strategical Aspect of the Opening Campaign

4. The March of the Vitellians

5. The Othonian Measures of Defence

6. The First Encounters

7. The Strategies of the Final Struggle

8. The" Battle of Bedriacum"

9. The Death of Otho

 

CHAPTER II

THE FLAVIAN INVASION OF ITALY

1. Vitellius and his Army in Rome

2. The Gathering of the Storm

3. Flavian Plans of War

4. The Strategy of the Defence

5. The Strategies compared

6. The Second "Battle of Bedriacum"

7. The Advance to Rome

8. The Death of Vitellius

CHAPTER III

THE REBELLION ON THE RHINE

1. The Tribes of the ''Low Countries"

2.The Cause of the Rebellion

3.The Roman Army on the Rhine

4.The War, up to the Relief of Vetera

5. Flood Tide : The Success of the Mutiny

6.The Ebb : Reduction of the Gallic Revolt

7.The Submission of the Germans

8.The Lessons of the Mutiny Gauls, Germans, and Romans, all had learnt lessons taught them by the great mutiny

 

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