Strasbourg AD 357A highly illustrated account of a decisive victory for the Romans under their Caesar Julian against the Alemanni and their leader Chnodomar. Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 35053 had left the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations along the Rhine the Franks and Alemanni took advantage of the situation to cross the river, destroy the Roman fortifications along it and occupy parts of Roman Gaul. In 355, the