A crossing over the Tiber River north of Rome, the Milvian Bridge was the site of two decisive military engagements separated by more than two centuries. In 312, the retreating army of Maxentius was destroyed there when a pontoon bridge built alongside the old causeway collapsed prematurely during the rout, killing many soldiers and Maxentius himself, whose body was later found on the riverbank. In the Gothic War of the sixth century, it was again the scene of a rout, when Belisarius launched a sortie from Rome that left several hundred Gothic dead at the bridge's foot as Vittigis's forces withdrew.
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Episode 3 (2 mentions)
A narrow causeway across the Tiber near Rome, and the site of Maxentius's defeat. Brownworth describes it as too narrow to accommodate an entire army; Maxentius had built a pontoon bridge alongside it for orderly retreat, but in the chaos of the rout his engineers pulled the bolts too early, the structure collapsed, and the old bridge proved equally fatal to the panicked army. Maxentius himself appears to have been swept off or crushed, and his corpse was found washed up on the shore.
“him all the way back to the old Milvian Bridge, a narrow causeway across the Tiber.”
“The only other option was now the old Milvian Bridge, which, as Maxentius had feared, was”
Episode 4 (1 mention)
“He hadn't set foot inside the gates since his victory at the Milvian Bridge thirteen”
Episode 8 (1 mention)
The Milvian Bridge is the site where, as the Goths retreated from Rome, Belisarius poured troops out of the city gates and left several hundred Gothic dead at the bridge's foot, turning Vittigis's retreat into a humiliation.
“several hundred Gothic dead at the foot of the Milvian Bridge. The Italian campaign had been,”
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