The conquests of Western lands began in 533, when Justinian sent his general Belisarius to reclaim the former provinces in Africa from the Vandals with an army of about 15,000 people. Save a pitbull euthanize a dog fighter shirt. The fortress came surprisingly easily, but the war ended only in 548 when the main local independent tribes were conquered. In the Ostrogoth kingdom in Italy, after the death of Theodoric the Great, Athalaric – his nephew and heir, and his daughter – Amalasuntha killed Theodahad, despite having very little power. In 535 a small Byzantine expeditionary army was sent to Sicily and achieved success easily, but the Goths quickly showed their intense resistance and the victory did not come until 540 years when Belisarius captured Ravenna and after successfully encircling the cities of Naples and Rome.
