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Topic: Mediolanum, Battle of
Location: Marathón Attiki Greece

Mediolanum, Battle of

Years: 259 - 259

The Battle of Mediolanum takes place in 259, between the Alamannic Germans and the Roman legions under the command of Emperor Gallienus.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)