Quotes: The rear of the auxiliaries, and the Batavi among the number, plunging recklessly into the water and displaying their skill in swimming, Ann Book II Chapter 8: War with the Germans. The Chatti (cont.)Of all these nations, the Batavians are the most signal in bravery. They inhabit not much territory upon the Rhine, but possess an island in it. They were formerly part of the Cat tans, and by means of feuds at home removed to these dwellings; whence they might become a portion of the Roman empire. Ger Chapter 29: Batavians and Mattiacians There were indeed in the territory of the Lingones eight Batavian cohorts, which formed the auxiliary force of the 14th legion, but which had, among the many dissensions of the time, withdrawn from it; a body of troops which, to whatever side they might incline, would, whether as allies or enemies, throw a vast weight into the scale His Book I Chapter 59: Revolt of Vitellius. Julius Civilis They behaved themselves insolently, boasting, as they visited the quarters of the several legions, that they had mastered the men of the 14th, that they had taken Italy from Nero, that the whole destiny of the war lay in their hands His Book II Chapter 27: Otho versus Vitellius. The Batavian mutiny Our bravest men His Book II Chapter 28: Otho versus Vitellius. The Batavian mutiny (cont.) New reinforcements were supplied by Varus Alfenius with his Batavians. They had routed the band of gladiators, which had been ferried across the river, and which had been cut to pieces by the opposing cohorts while they were actually in the water. Thus flushed with victory, they charged the flank of the enemy. His Book II Chapter 43: Otho versus Vitellius. The battle of Bedriacum (cont.) The Batavian cohorts were sent back to Germany, lest they should venture on further violence. Destiny was thus simultaneously preparing the occasions of civil war and of foreign war His Book II Chapter 69: Vitellius emperor. The soldiers are sent back The Batavians, while they dwelt on the other side of the Rhine, formed a part of the tribe of the Chatti. Driven out by a domestic revolution, they took possession of an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side. His Book IV Chapter 12: The Batavians They had also at home a select body of cavalry, who practised with special devotion the art of swimming, so that they could stem the stream of the Rhine with their arms and horses, without breaking the order of their squadrons. His Book IV Chapter 12: The Batavians The Gauls they urged to fight for freedom, the Batavi for glory, the Germans for plunder. His Book IV Chapter 78: The Batavian Uprise. Cerialis victorious Batavians, who are the natives of an island of the Rhine, and are esteemed the best of the German horse Plt Otho Chapter 12: Otho versus Vitellius: the battle of Bedriacum Other links: The First Cohort of Batavi, part-mounted The Batavians The Batavian revolt
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