11/2/2022 0 Comments Besiege free angle![]() ![]() There could be only one emperor and there could be only one way to decide who that should be: War. Though evidently not terribly good assassins for Vitellius continued to breathe and the German legions marched onward. ![]() This didn't move Vitellius and so assassins were sent to Germania. Vitellius was promised money beyond his wildest dreams, influence and a quiet spot to retire in. Realising he was hopelessly outmatched, he tried everything to turn them back. Otho had nowhere near the same number of men at his disposal. The Rhine legions were the toughest of the Roman legionaries. ![]() Vitellius‘ two generals, Valens and Caecina, were on the road marching a force of nearly 70,000 men to Rome. Otho hadn’t known, couldn’t have known when he staged his coup, that two weeks earlier on the banks of the Rhine the German legions had declared their Governor, Vitellius emperor. For amongst Galba’s papers was a horrifying revelation: There was another emperor. Escorted up to the palace the new emperor soon realised he had made a horrible, horrible mistake. The emperor and his associates were decapitated in the Forum whilst all around was bloody mayhem.īy sunset the Senate had no choice but to declare Otho emperor. On 15th January Marcus Salvius Otho enacted a coup against emperor Galba in one singular day of bloodshed. ![]()
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