This place, located at the narrow entrance of a loop where the Marne River made its way round a rocky outcrop, was probably named after the moats of an ancient Celtic oppidum and later a Roman castrum ; the site was known in medieval documents as Castrum Bagaudarum, at a time when the marauding Bagaudae had developed a legendary reputation as defenders of Christians again Roman persecution.

The campaign against the Bagaudae, however, was evidently land-based, and may have been responsible for Carausius's popularity with the army.

The Vasconian area presents indications of upheaval ( burnt villas, an abundance of mints to pay the garrisons ) during the 4th and 5th centuries that have been linked by many historians to the Bagaudae rebellions against feudalization.

In the late summer of 285, he suppressed rebels in Gaul known as the Bagaudae.

Carausius was of humble origin, a Menapian who distinguished himself during Maximian's campaign against the Bagaudae rebels in northern Gaul in 286.

* The Bagaudae, a group of peasant insurgents, revolt in Gaul against the Roman Empire.

He forces the Bagaudae to join the western coalition against the Suebi in Spain.

Here the Bagaudae, a band of peasants, revolt against the Roman Empire.

He also enjoyed initial success against the Franks and the Burgundians, as well as putting down a revolt by the Bagaudae by 437.

In the fifth century Bagaudae are noted in the lower Loire valley as far as the Atlantic shore, circa 409-17, fighting to a standstill armies sent against them by the last seriously effective Western Roman general, Flavius Aëtius.

However, Constantine sent another army headed by Edobichus and Gerontius, and Sarus was forced to retreat into Italy, needing to buy his passage through the Alpine passes from the brigand Bagaudae, who controlled them.

It is their harshness and greed that drive the poor to join the Bagaudae and fly for shelter to the barbarian invaders ( v. 5 and 6 ).

The Roman reaction to this invasion and unrest related to the Bagaudae was to give Aquitania and Tarraconensis to the Visigoths, in return for their services as allies by treaty ( foederati ).

For by what other causes were they made Bagaudae save by our unjust acts, the wicked decisions of the magistrates, the proscription and extortion of those who have turned the public exactions to the increase of their private fortunes and made the tax indictions their opportunity for plunder?

After his acclamation, Maximian was dispatched to fight the rebel Bagaudae in Gaul.

The Bagaudae are crushed, after their revolt in Gaul.

* Flavius Aetius suppresses the Bagaudae in Armorica ( Gaul ) and defeats the Salian Franks under king Chlodio near Arras ( Belgica Secunda ); the invaders are stopped around a river-crossing near Vicus Helena.

* Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, visits Ravenna seeking to soften imperial hostility towards the Bagaudae.

He defeated the Burgundians and besieged and conquered the city of Lugdunum: the rebel city was heavily fined, while the Bagaudae were forced to join the Empire.

Later Welsh legend has Maximus's defeated troops resettled in Armorica, instead of returning to Britannia, and by 400 Armorica was controlled by Bagaudae rather than by imperial authority.

Aremorica was controlled by Bagaudae, local leaders not under the authority of the Empire.

Aetius at least campaigned vigorously and mostly victoriously, defeating aggressive Visigoths, Franks, fresh Germanic invaders, Bagaudae in Aremorica, and a rebellion in Noricum.

At one point Rechiar even allied with Bagaudae.

A religious polemic of about this time complains bitterly of the oppression and extortion suffered by all but the richest Romans, many of whom wished to flee to the Bagaudae or even to foul-smelling barbarians.

So you find men passing over everywhere, now to the Goths, now to the Bagaudae, or whatever other barbarians have established their power anywhere ... We call those men rebels and utterly abandoned, whom we ourselves have forced into crime.

The uprising of the Bagaudae in the 3rd century led to unrest and depopulation, numerous villages were destroyed.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.