Among the German tribes of the time of Tacitus, "a people loyal to Rome. Consequently they, alone of the Germans, trade not merely on the banks of the river, but far inland, and in the most flourishing colony of the province of Rætia. Everywhere they are allowed to pass without a guard; and while to the other tribes we display only our arms and our camps, to them we have thrown open our houses and country-seats, which they do not covet." _Tacitus, Minor Works, translated by Church and Brodribb: The Germany._ "The settlements of the Hermunduri must have been in Bavaria, and seem to have stretched from Ratisbon, northwards, as far as Bohemia and Saxony." _Tacitus, Minor Works, translated by Church and Brodribb: The Germany. Geography notes._ HERNICANS, The. A Sabine tribe, who anciently occupied a valley in the Lower Appenines, between the Anio and the Trerus, and who were leagued with the Romans and the Latins against the Volscians and the Æquians. _H. G. Liddell, History of Rome, book 2, chapter 6._ HERODEANS, The. See JEWS: B. C. 40-A. D. 44. REIGN OF THE HERODEANS. HEROIC AGE OF GREECE. See GREECE: THE HEROES. HEROÖPOLIS. See JEWS: THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS. HERRINGS, The Battle of the (1429). In February, 1429, while the English still held their ground in France, and while the Duke of Bedford was besieging Orleans [see FRANCE: A. D. 1429-1431], a large convoy of Lenten provisions, salted herring in the main, was sent away from Paris for the English army. It was under the escort of Sir John Fastolfe, with 1,500 men. At Rouvray en Beausse the convoy was attacked by 5,000 French cavalry, including the best knights and warriors of the kingdom. The English entrenched themselves behind their wagons and repelled the attack, with great slaughter and humiliation of the French chivalry; but in the mêlée the red-herrings were scattered thickly over the field. This caused the encounter to be named the Battle of the Herrings. _C. M. Yonge, Cameos from English History, 2d series, chapter 35._ HERRNHUT. See MORAVIAN OR BOHEMIAN BRETHREN. HERULI, The. The Heruli were a people closely associated with the Goths in their history and undoubtedly akin to them in blood. The great piratical expedition of A. D. 267 from the Crimea, which struck Athens, was made up of Herules as well as Goths. The Heruli passed with the Goths under the yoke of the Huns. After the breaking up of the empire of Attila, they were found occupying the region of modern Hungary which is between the Carpathians, the upper Theiss, and the Danube. The Herules were numerous among the barbarian auxiliaries of the Roman army in the last days of the empire. _H. Bradley, Story of the Goths._