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1,619 years ago last evening on December 31st of 405AD, a motley nation of up to 100,000 Vandals, Alans, and Suebis, warriors, women and children, crossed the frozen expanse of the Rhine River by moonlight. No Roman army waited on the other side of the river in Roman Gaul, the Vandals and their allies entered the Empire unopposed. In the years that followed they would wreak impossible havoc on the heart of Empire, cultivating in the fall of Carthage in 439AD and the Sack of Rome in 455AD! What might have happened had the Rhine not frozen solid that fateful December in 405AD???