The Vandals land in Campania, at the mouth of the Lire or the Garigliano River, and devastate the region.
Majorian personally leads the Roman army and defeats the invaders near Sinuessa, destroying their ships on the seashore, loaded with booty.
"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."
—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)
