House of Julii
(270BC - 14AD)
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Scrotumus Maximus

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120BC

  • Winter - The great general Herius Tubertus died in a small battle in Dacia. The great leader never took the city of Porrolissum. The province of Dacia will remain in Brutii control all throughout the Civil War. Titus the Honest became Faction Heir of the Julii. Birth of Arria.

119BC

  • Winter - Death of Marcus the Foul, gov. of Ariminum.

118BC

  • Summer - Death of Publius Laelius in Narbo Martius. Birth of Turia.  Coming of age of Marcus Poppaeus, Decimus Drusus, Lentulus Octavius. Death of Tulia. Young Titus Augustus became governor of Tribus Iazyges Province.

117BC

  • Summer - The Julii abandoned the province of Tribus Iazyges back to the Brutii faction.  At this time, the Julii was financially bankrupt.  The reason for abandoning the province was to help stabalize the economy. Death of Vipsania in a riot in Londinium.

    Cnaeus Poppaeus, the great conqueror of Sparta, Corinth and Athens was assasinated in the Temple of Venus in Athens. His army was taken over by his son Marcus.
     

  • Winter - Marcus Poppaeus, son of Cnaeus Poppaeus, was assassinated in his sleeping quarters in Athens. Oppius the Gambler and Titus Urbicus retook the town Damme back from the rebels. Londinium fell into rebel hands.

116BC

  • Summer - Coming of age of Quintis Pennus. Death of Fannia.

  • Winter - The Julii started a new campaign to finally take Salona in Dalmatia. Led by Marcellus Mamaea, the Julii took the city which was defended by Appius Caecilius.

 



116BC - Salona, Dalmatia. Before Marcellus Mamaea entered the city, he had to defeat the Brutii  reinforcements of Appius Caecilius.
 

115BC

  • Summer - Coming of age of Quintus Tubertus, (the son of the great general Herius Tubertus) and Luca Regulus. Plague spreading throughout all of Italy.

114BC

  • Summer - Marcellus Mamaea took the city of Apollonia. The province of Eprius is now under Julii control. He later confronted a Brutii army heading north to retake the city.  Outnumbered two to one, it was a heroic victory for Marcellus Mamaea.

  • Winter - Birth of Cornelius Sosius. The Julii abandoned Athens to the Brutii to safeguard the cities of Corinth and Sparta. Titus Augustus, gov. of Aquincum, Pannonia defeated Tertius Macrianus, southeast of the city.

 



114BC - Epirus Province.  Gen. Marcellus Mamaea defeated a larger Brutii force led by Marcellus Brutus.


114BC - Epirus Province.  Smoke, dust and fire covered the grounds as two Roman armies fight for dominance.


114BC - Pannonia Province. Titus Augustus defeated Tertius Macrianus. The Julii cavalry after routing the Brutii cavalry flanked the enemy in their
right side of the battleline.
 

113BC

  • Summer - Marcellus Mamaea battles to take Thermon and defeated two under strength Brutii armies led by Galerius the Handsome and Luca Thrasea.

  • Winter - The town of Vicus Gothi fell into rebel hands. Attempts to retake the town back by the garrison failed.

 



113BC - Aetolia Province. Gen. Marcellus Mamaea defeated Galerius the Handsome defending the pass to Thermon.


113BC - Aetolia Province. Brutii governor Luca Thrasea engaged Marcellus Mamaea north of Thermon. After the Brutii defeat, the city
surrendered and opened their gates to the Julii army.
 

112BC

  • Summer - Death of Plautilla and Magna.  Coming of age of Lucius Octavius.

  • Winter - Death of Licinia.  Cornelius Iuventius married Vistilia.

111BC

  • Summer - Marcellus Victor (Mamaea) defeated Brutii Gen. Oppius Crispus in the defense of Thermon.  Lovosice Boihaemum fell into Brutii hands.  The small Julii garrison could not defeat the Brutii attacking force led by Asinius.

  • Death of Baebiana.

 



111BC - Lovosice, Boihaemum. The Brutii knocked down the walls and stormed in the city. The small Julii garrison could not hold.
 

110BC

  • Summer - Coming of age for Placus Urbicus. Death of Alfidia and Octavia. Legate Valerius retook Athens from the weak Brutii garrison.

  • Winter - Spurius Pennus, gov. of Lugdunum dies of natural causes. Death of Euphemia. Tiberius Paulinus married Hostia. Marcellus Victor defeats Sextus Catulus who was trying to retake Athens.

109BC

  • Summer - Herennius the Cunning dies in Scallabis.  Death of Cornelius Iuventius in Narbo Martius. Coming of age of Caius Octavius, Flavius Drusus, Numerius Maelius. Lentulus Mamercus married Vibia. Marcus Pennus retook Vicus Gothi back into Julii control.

    Marcellus Victor conquers Thessalia and enters the city of Larissa.

 



109BC - Thessalia Province. The Julii celebrate their victory over the garrison of Larissa. They marched in the city unopposed.
 

108BC

  • Winter - Rebellion in Aquincum which fell into rebel hands. Then the Brutii took over the entire province of Pannonia from the rebels which became a serious threat for the neighboring Julii provinces of Noricum, Venetia and Illyria.  Titus Augustus then retook the city and province several months later after defeating the Brutii garrison led by Flavius Brutus.

107BC

  • Summer - Death of Tiberius Carausius in Lugdunum and Papiria.

  • Winter - Marcellus the Attacker (Mamaea) took Thessalonica after defeating Lucius the Cunning. Death of Vibius in Osca. Death of Livia and Plotina.

 



107BC - Thessalonica, Macedonia. Julii legionnaires ready their pilum.
 

106BC

  • Summer - Marcus Lappius, gov. of Condate Redonum dies of old age. Birth of Quintis Tubertus. Coming of age of Decimus Drusus. Aulus Sertorius married Livia.

  • Winter - Marcellus the Defender (Mamaea) defeats Amulius the Cunning south of Bylazora and sieged the city.

 



106BC - Bylazora, Paionia. Both sides exchange javelins before charging. After the battle, Marcellus Mamaea sieged the city of Bylazora which fell
a year later.
 

103BC

  • Summer - Marcellus the Defender (Mamaea) turned east to take Tylis in the province of Thrace. There he is surrounded by 3 Brutii forces. He forms the orb formation to defend himself from 3 points of attack. Once one side he saw a breach, he ordered his cavalry to break through out of the orb formation and flanked one of the attack Brutii spearhead. After one spearhead routed, he ordered his men to pursue. What followed was a heroic victory for Marcellus Mamaea's men.

 



103BC - Thrace, west of the city of Tylis. The Julii found themselves surrounded by three Brutii forces. They could not spare a moment but hurriedly
formed the orb formation in order not to be flanked in all sides. Note the hoplites in the back, they could not exchange places with the legionnaires in
the while being harrassed by Brutii cavalrymen.


103BC - Thrace, west of the city of Tylis. Wave afer wave, the Brutii could not penetrate the orb formation. Also, the Julii had siege weapons
that they were able to use against the Brutii while the Brutii did not have any to effectively weaken the Julii orb formation. The Brutii had to retreat
back and the Marcellus Mamaea gave the other to run them down.
 

101BC

  • Winter - After 2 years, Marcellus Mamaea was again strong enough to take Tylis afte receiving reinforcements of troops from Greece. He sieged Tylis and then lifted it when confronted by a Brutii relief force under Augustus Labienus and Gnaius Florus. In the hills above Tylis, the Roman armies fought on the crest of the hill.

Historian: Scrotumus Maximus (translated from Latin):
The battle was hard fought but the Julii slowly gained ground until the Brutii found themselves on the lower slope. The weight of the push by the Julii legionnaires could no longer be contained that men were sliding everywhere on the snow covered ground. Augustus Labienus wanted to retreat but in an orderly fashion but as one cohort was ordered to retreat back, many of the men in the front lines panicked and the whole Brutii frontline dissolved. The confusion resulted in a slaughter as Julii legionnaires cut men down in a downhill direction.
 

 



101BC - The Hills over Tylis. Both Julii and Brutii legionnaires met at the crest of the hill.


101BC - The Hills over Tylis. A long struggle between two armies followed until the Julii gained ground and pushed the Brutii downhill.
Miscommunication and confusion by the Brutii resulted in a massacre and a Julii victory.
 

100BC

  • Summer - Marcellus the Defender (Mamaea), fortified his army west of Tylis for close to a year to wait for supplies and reinforcements. By spring, he continued his offensive against Tylis. There north of the city, Augustus Labienus who had lost the battle a year earlier, now commanded a large Brutii army. Labienus chose to attack instead of waiting for the Julii on top of the slope. The battle took hours as both sides fought it out in relentless fashion. Both sides inflicting heavy losses to one another. But the Julii on a defensive stance did not lose ground.  In the end,  Labienus retreated again and the Julii army of Marcellus Mamaea was wounded too severely to continue the offensive. He postponed his invasion of Tylis, a strategic victory for Labienus.

 

Here pictures of the Battle of Tylis - 100BC:

Marcellus Mamaea surveys the slope ahead where the Brutii army of Labienus were forming.


Julii cavalrymen on the left flank on watch as the Brutii army on the slope approaches.


The first line of the Brutii army of Labienus charged and Julii first line launched their pila.


Marcellus Mamaea's personal guards held their ground. Their job to defend the general at all cost.


2nd wave of the Brutii charge of spearmen hits the right flank of the Julii.


Praetorians who sided with the Brutii fought in the center against the veteran legionnaires of the Julii.


Praetorians who sided with the Julii fought on the right flank of the battle line facing the veteran legionnaires of the Brutii.


All along the battle line, legionnaires fought to the death. Marcellus ordered the right flank to advance to engage the 3rd Brutii charge.


As casualties mounted on each side, some of the Brutii cohorts began to retreat. The Brutii General Labienus then decided
to move his remaining troops back on top of the hill and slowly escape back to the town of Tylis. The Julii army of Mamaea did not pursue.

99BC

  • In the winter of 99BC, Marcellus Mamaea with reinforcements began the siege of Tylus. The defenders of the town were some of the remnants of Labienus' legionnaires that fought the summer before.

97BC

  • Tylus falls to the siege. The once proud Labienus committed suicide by falling on his sword after he sent orders to his generals to surrender the town. He was to be known as the last great Brutii general who fought in the civil war. The remaining leadership of the Brutii were mostly unknown and historical accounts unforunately lost in time.

  • With the province of Byzantirum the only territory still in Brutii hands, the Brutii had no other place to retreat. Beyond the strait lies Parthian territory in Asia Minor. With several newly created Julii legions from the italian peninsula and from Greece heading their way, the Brutii remnants sent emissaries to Marcellus Mamaea to cease the fighting and end the civil war on the condition that all remaining Brutii legionnaires were pardoned and their salaries paid in full since the beginning of hostilities. Tired and weary of war, Marcellus Mamaea agreed to the terms.

Historian: Scrotumus Maximus (translated from Latin):
Thus, the great civil war of Rome ended in Byzantium. All Roman territories were controlled by the Julii and peace was secured.
The consolidation of all Roman territories reached fifty provinces. The new empire of Rome stretched from Britannia in the west,
across Europe and all the way to the shores of the Black Sea.

-- The End --

 

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