<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rome_(537–538)" id="mwJA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Rome (537–538)">Siege of Rome</a>: The Byzantine general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belisarius">Belisarius</a> receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Huns">Hunnic</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavs">Slavic</a> origin and expert <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery" id="mwKA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Archery">bowmen</a>. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" id="mwKQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ostrogoths">Gothic</a> camps and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiges" id="mwKg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vitiges">Vitiges</a> but is forced into a stalemate.