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At least 6000 Alemanni are killed during the battle of Strasbourg.

Related Conflict :Battle of Argentoratum (Battle of Strasbourg)
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Roman Army of Julian Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Alemannian Army under Chnodomar Origin: Alemanni/Swabian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: losses
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Flavius Claudius Iulianus Apostata Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
  • Chnodomar Origin: Alemanni/Swabian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Ammianus Marcellinus, History (Rerum Gestarum) 16.12.63 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Argentoratum (Strasbourg)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 4
    Year :A.D. 357
     
    Context :battle
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
     
    Original Text :ex Alamannis vero sex milia corporum numerata sunt, in campo constrata, et alii inaestimabiles mortuorum acervi per undas fluminis ferebantur.
     
    Translation :But of the Alamanni there were counted six thousand corpses lying on the field, and heaps of dead, impossible to reckon, were carried off by the waves of the river.
     
    Edition :Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.
     
     
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    Created at :2021-06-06 : 11:29:00
    Last changed :2021-07-21 : 12:40:12
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00009527
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00009527