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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
The Vandals repeatedly visited the coasts of
Spain, Liguria, Tuscany, Campania, Lucania,
Bruttium, Apulia, Calabria, Venetia, Dalmatia,
Epirus, Greece, and Sicily.
The celerity of their motion enabled them,
almost at the same time, to threaten and to
attack the most distant objects which
attracted their desires; and as they always
embarked a sufficient number of horses, they
had no sooner landed than they swept the
dismayed country with a body of light cavalry.
A last and desperate attempt to dispossess
Genseric of the sovereignty of the seas, was
made in the year 468 by Leo, the emperor of
the East. Gibbon bears witness to this as
follows: —
“The whole expense of the African campaign
amounted to the sum of one hundred and
