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Dave Latham asked about the Kingdom of Soissons, and after a particularly deep rabbit hole, Murray has emerged to give you his musings.
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, |
0:09.5 | Murray, your weekly fix of ancient warfare related material to escape from your everyday lives. |
0:17.0 | Now, of course, what I do here is I attempt to answer questions from viewers, listeners, |
0:21.6 | readers, writers. Anyone who asks me a question, you can send me an email. You can comment |
0:27.6 | on one of the previous videos or podcasts and they'll get to me. You can send me a postcard, |
0:33.6 | P-O-B-O-B-E-E-L-F-I-E-L-D-21991, Australia, New South Wales, Australia, |
0:41.3 | that will get to me. And of course, what I'll try and do is answer your questions and hopefully |
0:45.8 | not go down a rabbit hole, which today's question absolutely sent me down. So thank you to |
0:51.7 | Dave, who sent this question in. In fact, he's done two. |
0:55.6 | So his question is, I wonder if it would be possible at some point to do casts on either |
0:59.7 | Sertorius' rebellion in Spain and how his Roman troops differed from the classical late Republic |
1:04.8 | types. That's not what I'll be dealing with today. Or a second cast could be on |
1:10.0 | a... Come on, brain, I tried to practice this. |
1:14.7 | Uh, Syagrius, Syagrius, there we are. And the kingdom of Suasson, and it might be of interest |
1:19.6 | to your listeners. Well, I hope so. Uh, it certainly sent me down a very deep rabbit hole, uh, talking |
1:26.6 | about the kingdom of Suasson. Now, Suassant is, about the kingdom of Suasson. |
1:28.2 | Now, Suasson is, or the kingdom of Suasson was the wrong term because there was never a king. |
1:33.7 | There's a whole very deliberate aspect to what happens in Northern Gaul at the end of the Roman Empire in the late 5th century AD. |
1:43.1 | But it's become known as the kingdom of |
1:45.9 | Suasson or the domain of Suasson. Lots of particularly confusing phrases to describe it, a visibly |
1:55.2 | autonomous Roman polity, which is, oh my gosh, okay, whereas what it actually is, is at the end of the Roman |
2:03.4 | Empire, Gaul is already being divided amongst the Franks, the Burgundians, the Visigoths, |
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