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  2. Gothic and Vandal warfare - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Vandalic War - Wikipedia

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    On the Vandal side, the picture is less clear. The Vandal army was not a professional and mostly volunteer force like the East Roman army, but comprised every able-bodied male of the Vandal people. Hence modern estimates on the available forces vary along with estimates on the total Vandal population, from a high of between 30,000–40,000 men ...

  4. Vandal War (439–442) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Vandal War (461–468) - Wikipedia

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    The Vandal War (461–468) was a long-term conflict between the two halves of the Roman Empire on the one hand and the Vandals in North Africa on the other. This war revolved around hegemony in the Mediterranean and the empire of the west. The Vandals as a rising power posed an enormous threat to the stability of the Roman Empire. [1]

  6. Vandal Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In 435, the Western Roman Empire, then ruling North Africa, allowed the Vandals to settle in the provinces of Numidia and Mauretania when it became clear that the Vandal army could not be defeated by Roman military forces. In 439, the Vandals renewed their advance eastward and captured Carthage, the most

  7. Vandals - Wikipedia

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    Vandal cavalryman, c. AD 500, from a mosaic pavement at Bordj Djedid near Carthage. North Africa, comprising north Tunisia and eastern Algeria in the Vandal period, became a Roman province again, from which the Vandals were expelled. Many Vandals went to Saldae (today called Béjaïa in north Algeria) where they integrated themselves with the ...

  8. Stilicho - Wikipedia

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    Stilicho [2] (/ ˈ s t ɪ l ɪ k oʊ /; c. 359 – 22 August 408) was a military commander in the Roman army who, for a time, became the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire. [3] [4] He was partly of Vandal origins and married to Serena, the niece of emperor Theodosius I. He became guardian for the underage Honorius. [5]

  9. Crossing of the Rhine - Wikipedia

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    Frigeridus states that the Vandals lost around 20,000 warriors, including their king Godigisel, in these military engagements. [6] When the Vandals' war situation was becoming desperate, the Alans (who he mistakenly labels Alamanni) came to the rescue of the Vandals, and the joint forces seem to have defeated the Franks in a decisive battle. [6]