[MR] today in ancient history

[Wayne Remes]

Yeah...and led to excaliber being removed from the Temple of Tberius and 
taken to Britian and placed in the stone a generation or so before Arthur's 
coming. I know my history...I just saw it in the Last legion!!!!

Axel

PS: Incidently..the Last Legion was not half bad....not great mind you...but 
no where near as bad as I feared it was gonna be.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "beth roberts" <gwynwilf1wolf at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: [MR] today in ancient history


> Under command of King Alaric, the Visigoths besieged
> Rome when negotiations with the empire for land and
> supplies broke down. On August 24, allies of Alaric
> within the city opened the gates, and the Visigoths
> plundered the capital for three days. They treated the
> inhabitants humanely, burning few buildings, but
> nevertheless the incident was shocking, for it had
> been almost 800 years since a foreign force had
> occupied Rome.
> This incident is sometimes regarded as the beginning
> of the Middle Ages.
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