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There is not a single painter who went harder than Jacques-Louis David, and not a single one who ever will.
Ammianus writes how, in 357, Bainobaudes and some men from the unit swam to an island in the Rhine occupied by Germanic tribesmen. After slaughtering "everyone they found like sheep" they captured boats and did it on other islands, forcing their targets to flee across the river.
Were the armies of the Germanic kingdoms of Post-Roman Europe essentially Roman, the descendants of Late Roman field armies; essentially Germanic, the descendants of tribal warbands; or something in between? A thread: