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Funerary stela of one of Nero's Corporis Custodes, the imperial Germanic bodyguard.The bodyguard, Indus, was of the Batavian tribe. The Batavi [bäˈt̪äːu̯iː] were an ancient Germanic [1] tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.
[1] Attested personnel. The following personnel is attested on diplomas or inscriptions: [1] Commanders. Αυρηλιος Ουαλεντινος (ca. 267)
Inside the palace on the second floor, with one of the lunettes by Jordaens. The painting follows Tacitus's Histories in depicting an episode from the Batavian rebellion (69–70 AD), led by the one-eyed chieftain Claudius Civilis (actually called Julius Civilis by Tacitus, though but once, Claudius Civilis has since become entrenched in art history), [2] in which he "collected at one of the ...
Gaius Julius Civilis was born in AD 25. [1] He was twice imprisoned on a charge of rebellion, and narrowly escaped execution. During the disturbances that followed the death of Nero, he took up arms under pretense of siding with Vespasian and induced the inhabitants of his native country to rebel.
The capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender to the British of a Batavian expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony in 1796. In 1795, early in the War of the First Coalition, French troops overran the Dutch Republic which then became a French client state, the Batavian Republic.
The loyalty of the Batavian navy was especially in doubt, as this was a hotbed of Orangist sentiment. The British Major General George Don, who conducted a reconnaissance of the Republic in July, estimated that the Helder squadron of the Batavian fleet would fall into British hands without a fight, if the Allies played their cards right. [1]
Claudius Labeo (1st. ct. AD) was a Batavian and a military leader in the service of the Roman Empire at the time of the Batavian rebellion.He was prefect of the Batavian ala of auxiliaries, which went over from Lupercus to Civilis.
Re-enactment group interpreting the Batavi iuniores. The Batavi was an auxilia palatina (infantry) unit of the late Roman army, active between the 4th and the 5th century.It was composed by 500 soldiers and was the heir of those ethnic groups that were initially used as auxiliary units of the Roman army and later integrated in the Roman Empire after the Constitutio Antoniniana.