What is "batavian"

Usage examples of "batavian".

The Emperor kept up such an extensive agency in Holland that he easily got up a deputation soliciting him to choose a king for the Batavian Republic.

From a distance, he looked Batavian, one of the hired mercenaries from the tribes on the western, imperial side of the Rhine.

The Batavian on top was a mortal man who could see his own death approaching.

The Batavian auxiliaries could swim it in full armour with their horses beside them and not break ranks.

He felt a presence near him that smelled of blood and horse-sweat and tried to reach out, to say that young Sigimur, one of the Batavian lads, too young to sign up but ready to help, was the only one who could get near the beast without dying.

Then I think the Batavian horse warriors should be the ones to do the ripping.

Two hundred and thirty Batavian warriors died in less time than they had taken to cross the river.

At least one Batavian had died under the flailing feet before the rest learned that the safe place to be was behind him or far to the side.

On the far bank, a Batavian hand thrust Ban into the saddle and the Crow, without intervention from its rider, followed Civilis as he led them back to their place in the lines.

She had been on foot, braced against the onslaught of the find legion, when the unborn foal had been raised by the Batavian murderers on the far side of the battlefield and word had passed, like fire in ripe corn, of the sacrilege.

Small numbers of Roman cavalry - not the wild Batavian horsemen of the cohorts or their Gaulish auxiliary comrades - covered the margins, preventing an attack from the rear.

On the continent, Julius Civilis was known to command a cohort of Batavian auxiliaries and claimed during a later revolt to have known, and consider himself a friend of, the future emperor Vespasian.

The Vatican was the first Court which recognised the erection of Tuscany into the Kingdom of Etruria, and the formation of the Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Batavian Republics.

To determine the difficulties which had arisen with regard to Holland, which Dumouriez dreamed of conquering with an imaginary army, and being discontented besides with the Dutch for not rigorously excluding English vessels from their ports, the Emperor constituted the Batavian territory a kingdom under his brother Louis.

When Bonaparte was the chief of the French Republic he had no objection to the existence of a Batavian Republic in the north of France, and he equally tolerated the Cisalpine Republic in the south.