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Barbarians?
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dude ur pic is so unrealistic, Barbarians were manly men, not manly women.
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The humiliating battle of the Allia, c. 387 BC, where a Roman army was defeated by the Gallic Senones.
It made the barbarian tribes of Gaul and Germania real bogeymen in the eyes of Rome, early in the Republic.
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Roman battles against the Germanic invasions, AD 378-439.
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One of the most famous barbarians in early Roman history was Vercingetorix (82-46 BC), chieftain of the Arverni, and commander of the rebellious Gauls in their uprising against Rome. An astute general, Julius Caesar, scattered the rebellious Gallic armies and trapped Vercingetorix in a fortified hilltop city, Alesia. Caesar's legions build extensive fortifications, trenches, and fields of traps around Alesia, directed inward and outward. A barbarian relief army tried to break in while Big V's army at Alesia tried to break out, but was unsuccessful and that particular barbarian uprising was effectively crushed and Gaul was brought back to Roman authority.

Pic: Statue de Vercingétorix par Bartholdi, Place de Jaude, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
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Some more shots.
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And here's a Vercingetorix Memorial at Alesia (Alise-Sainte-Reine), France.
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Fight out the climactic battle of Alesia in 52 BC with your own strategies and tactics in this old board wargame, Caesar at Alesia, made in 1976 AD by Avalon Hill.

Seriously. It's one of the best board wargames ever made on a thrilling and interesting battle.
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But for famous barbarians that plagued and ultimately destroyed the later Roman Empire, Attila the Hun (406-453), aka the Scourge of God, is most notable. Here's his stature in Hungary.
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Here's an altarpiece frieze by Raphael of Attila meeting Pope Leo I with Saint Peter & Paul above. he was persuaded not to sack Rome.
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But that did not spare Rome from the depredations of the other Barbarian tribes.

The city of Rome has been sacked on several occasions. Among the most famous:

* Sack of Rome (387 BC) - Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia
* Sack of Rome (410) - Rome is sacked by Alaric, King of the Visigoths
* Sack of Rome (455) - Rome is sacked by Geiseric, King of the Vandals
* Sack of Rome (546) - Rome is sacked and depopulated by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, during the war between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines
* Sack of Rome (846) - The Arab Saracens attack Rome and loot old St. Peter's Basilica, though the Roman City walls prevent further damage to the city itself
* Sack of Rome (1084) - Rome is sacked by the Normans of Robert Guiscard
* Sack of Rome (1527) - Rome is sacked by the mutinous troops of Emperor Charles V.
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Herman the German wishes to impress on you his maxim,
"First pillage, THEN burn."
>> Fresh Prince of Persia !!klmsTxt9nWG
>>421211

that's one long history of getting sacked, wonder how they recovered from the economical blows after everyone of them
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Here, Vercingetorix surrenders to Julius Caesar at Alesia.

Sorry about the small size, but it was the largest I could find.
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Red Sonja?
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Red Sonja!
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Red Sonja Fuck Yeah!
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galliam est omnis divisas in prtes tres
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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>>421233
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur."

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres (Gaul is a whole divided into three parts) — Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, I.i.
>> Fresh Prince of Persia !!klmsTxt9nWG
>>421245

is that... is that.... is that Vladimir Putin?
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Close.
It's Roman Emperor and Perpetual Dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, here at the Coustou, Louvre.

Cæsar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Cæsar. If thou be’st not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!
-- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, act II, scene iii.
>> Anonymous
this is the best thread in years
>> ?Ol' Pervasive? !!WofkO8tPeNi
>>422312
Welcome to Bat Guano.
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How bout some Boudica?
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VIKINGS!
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Boudica....
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Hermann.
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>>422769
Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, formerly better known as Boadicea, and known in Welsh culture and legends as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61 ) was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
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Boadicea with her two daughters upon a chariot. She was a queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain who led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Upon the death of her husband Prasutagus, the Romans annexed his kingdom and brutally humiliated Boudica and her daughters, spurring her leadership of the revolt.
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Perhaps an inspiration for this German monument to victory?
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The warrior queen from Conan the Barbarian, a PS3 video game.
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>>422919

wasn't there a tennyson poem?