Vic's News 2016 Sep 4

Geezer

…On this day in 476 Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. By this time the Romans had already lost the wheat fields in Northern Africa and were unable to pay the troops. Individual towns in Gaul and Briton were already forming their own little city/states for protection.

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