March 11th 537 - Battle at the Praenestine Gate in Rome. This was during a siege of Rome by the Goths. The fighting took place in an area that housed the animals used for the spectacles at the Colosseum and was viewed as vulnerable. The Goths had gained entrance to the city and were met with fierce resistance from the Romans. Ironically the leader of the Roman soldiers was himself a Goth, having been recruited by the Romans as a young man because of his fighting prowess. After brutal street fighting the attack was repelled. This siege was eventually broken but it wasn’t the first or the last attempt by the Goths. They were a nomadic people whose continued assaults against Rome help bring about the decline and eventual fall of that empire.
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