<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rome_(537–38)" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Rome (537–38)">Siege of Rome</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ostrogoths">Ostrogoth</a> army under king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiges" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vitiges">Vitiges</a> begins the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege">siege</a> of the capital. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belisarius">Belisarius</a> conducts a delaying action outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_del_Popolo" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Piazza del Popolo">Flaminian Gate</a>; he and a detachment of his <i id="mwFw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucellarii" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bucellarii">bucellarii</a></i> are almost cut off.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-1" id="mwGQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPetersen2013">Petersen, Leif Inge Ree (2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BRGaAAAAQBAJ" id="mwBr8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBsA">Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States, 400-800 AD: Byzantium, the West and Islam</i></a>. Leiden: Brill. pp.<span id="mwBsE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>503–505. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBsI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBsM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9789004251991" id="mwBsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9789004251991"><bdi id="mwBsU">9789004251991</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210103130442/https://books.google.com/books?id=BRGaAAAAQBAJ" id="mwBsY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-01-03<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBsc">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBsg">2021-03-02</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBsk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Siege+Warfare+and+Military+Organization+in+the+Successor+States%2C+400-800+AD%3A+Byzantium%2C+the+West+and+Islam&amp;rft.place=Leiden&amp;rft.pages=503-505&amp;rft.pub=Brill&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=9789004251991&amp;rft.aulast=Petersen&amp;rft.aufirst=Leif+Inge+Ree&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBRGaAAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+2"></span></span>