Brocomagus, Gallia Lugdunensis (modern Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France)
Result
Roman victory
Belligerents
Western Roman Empire
Alamanni
Commanders and leaders
Julian
Unknown
Strength
13,000
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
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Rome against the Alemanni and the Juthungi
Mediolanum
Lake Benacus
Placentia
Fano
Pavia
Lingones
Vindonissa
Autun
Durocortorum
Brumath
Senonae
Strasbourg
Solicinium
Argentovaria
The Battle of Brumath in 356 AD was part of Roman Emperor Julian's campaigns against the Germanic tribes. Following the Battle of Reims, Julian's forces pursued several Germanic war bands through the Gallic countryside. Outside Brocomagus (Brumath), one war band met Julian in open battle and the Romans were victorious.
Hearing therefore that Strasburg, Brumath, Saverne, Seltz, Speyer, Worms, and Mayence were held by the savages, who were living on their lands (for the towns themselves they avoid as if they were tombs surrounded by nets), he first of all seized Brumath, but while he was still approaching it a band of Germans met him and offered battle. Julian drew up his forces in the form of a crescent, and when the fight began to come to close quarters, the enemy were overwhelmed by a double danger; some were captured, others were slain in the very heat of the battle, and rest got away, saved by recourse to speed.[1]
Although casualties were not numerous,[2] the Germanic defeat was sufficiently great to have a deterrent effect on other tribal groups in the area, and to partially restore order.[3]
Following Brumath, Julian went on to re-occupy Cologne (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium), and then went into winter quarters in Senonae, modern Sens, where he was besieged by Frankish forces.
^Ammianus, Marcellinus; Rolfe, J.C. (tr). The History XIV 2 12–13. Loeb Classical Library. p. 209. Retrieved Mar 23, 2019.
^Goldsworthy, In the Name of Rome, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003
^Goldsworthy, In the Name of Rome, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003,
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