Battle of Adrianople 378 - Roman-Gothic War DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on Roman history continues with an episode on the Gothic War of 376-382. In one of the most iconic battles of the Late Antiquity - the battle of Adrianople of 378, the Eastern Roman emperor Valens meets the Goths of Fritigern. This video also covers the battles of Marcianople and Dibaltum, as well as the early Hunnic invasions.
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[@KingsandGenerals]

Random react youtubers get 10s of thousands of likes, can we get 10k for our boy Valens? Our video explaining the Roman army of this period: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYKvnWSQZcuDndU

[@sebastianbravo5028]

YES!!!

[@maxmuller8633]

YEET

[@mdmiloy5897]

Good continew guys

[@mdmiloy5897]

Please make early muslim expention very early.

[@bablubanna9729]

Please make a vdieo on rajput kingdum of Mewar india

[@Pravdik918]

"Unrest caused by religious divisions and terrible state of the Balkans... " I am sure that people will work these problems out in few years :)

[@boiiiii9627]

@eualadindeal well these were not the same people living there as it is now

[@ibrahimmustafa2481]

boiii ii doesn't matter, the region itself is cursed 😂

[@boiiiii9627]

@@ibrahimmustafa2481 true dat

[@Trimondius]

@eualadindeal The balkan people are too busy tearing themselves apart. lol

[@samyak9592]

@eualadindeal bruh so much like India

[@gandalfsseconduncle6309]

Breaking news: Local Emperor too angry to live

[@ch1efhugo134]

😂😂

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution screaming somewhat coherently at barbarians?

[@awzthemusicalreviews]

@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution Cocaine and hookers ... wait, no that was Herb Abrams. My b

[@NecromancyForKids]

@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution dying

[@arami187]

I blame Wine laced with Opium. Oh wait, he would had been more Chill.

[@morgoth615]

Another episode of "Oh so THIS caused the end of the Roman Empire" Part 2657

[@starcool961]

@@alexmag342 actually the battle of Manzikert sealed the fate of the eastern Roman empire and it crippled it since then the empire was in a slow decline

[@pawelnowak9440]

Beginning of the end. For the first time a group of barbarians was not expelled nor dispersed among Roman population. It played later a huge role showing others Barbarians that they too can settle within Roman borders and keep its independence as mere foederati

[@mortache]

@@alexmag342 The fourth crusade was the last nail in the coffin, but the real cause was the constant warfare between Romans and Sassanids, which created the perfect scenario for rapid Muslim expansion both east and west.

[@bundleofhumble3119]

It was actually the power hungry culture of Roman that destroyed and divided it from the inside.

[@tylerellis9097]

TheLocalLt Western Roman Empire had no more Legitimacy than the Eastern and it Fell in 480 with the Death of Julius Nepos

[@morgoth615]

11:08 "The Commies dispatched messages" Damn Reds lol

[@hyltoniali257]

The World has always been red...with BLOOD...for da blood god, skulls...wait, wrong scene

[@OtakuExtreme25]

Buena fortuna anti commie ninja

[@ArousedRat1]

@@hyltoniali257 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD ! LET THE GALAXY BURN!

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

Not only commies, but they were aided by ducks.

[@danielconejos5020]

@@ArousedRat1 Yes Inquisitor, this comment right here

[@henrybatten3315]

Quadi negotiators: "oh shit we pissed off the enemy emperor so much he died from rage" Quadi leaders: "I see this as an absolute win."

[@jesseberg3271]

The Quadi would probably have seen it as proof that the gods had struck him down for lying about whose fault the war was.

[@erickrasniewski567]

Still my favorite death

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

😂

[@alexanderbergbacka6825]

Bro literally died mad

[@Gorboduc]

What I've always found so morbidly fascinating about this battle is that there's no real major cause for it on the Roman side. Instead it's a series - a very long series - of petty vices and minor misjudgments that somehow snowballed into a gigantic catastrophe. Valens isn't perfect but he's by no means Honorius-level incompetent, Lupercinus is a fairly ordinary crook, Gratian had perfectly good reason to be late, the skirmishers were no less disciplined than frontline hotheads have been at other times, yet add them all up and we have a total system failure and the beginning of the collapse.

[@austinng1137]

I agree, and yet the battle nevertheless accelerated the root causes of the Roman Empire's downfall. "The Day of the Barbarians" is a good in depth look at the battle and surrounding events for anyone who wants to read about it in detail.

[@mikeburley8255]

Kind of sounds like now .

[@8ncient1]

Sigh. Just stay in your cities, the hordes couldn't take them. Then go out and tear them up once they've settled somewhere or spread themselves thin. Same with that huge bulgarian defeat in the 800s in another kings generals vid, instead of engaging in a long string in the mountains, ignore the army, and instead occupy and raze the cities. The army would be helpless to found a new bulgarian civ on it's own. Stay in the cities :'(

[@ronb7189]

@@8ncient1 Staying in the cities would result in their land and villages being utterly looted as well as their trade being disrupted, once more, the Generals and Emperor would look weak, being too intimidated to even put up a defence against the Barbarians which would undoubtedly lead to unrest and possibly the people Emperor(s) being replaced with an opportunistic politician/General who is willing to proactively defend the Empire from being looted by an army that the Romans viewed as inferior. In short staying in the cities would have cost the Romans to lose the war before a battle even began hence why no Roman Emperor ever employed a tactic similar to that until near the end of Byzantium's life when they were hopelessly outmatch by the Ottomans in the battlefield.

[@mattwithahat3857]

I think they could have done better scouting to assess the situation better. Especially if you know your borders are open for anyone to come in, you should always be aware of the unaware. If they scouted the surrounding area, the might have discovered the cavalary forces coming from the west. I think there was also too much arrogance in place, thinking the barbarians could easily be defeated and underestimating their strength.

[@ElBandito]

Back when Goths were extremely extroverted.

[@jesseberg3271]

Ironically, our current conception of Gothic originated as an insult. Calling a piece of architecture Gothic was originally supposed to be trash talking it, saying it looked like it had been built by a barbarian. But the style stuck, and so did the name, and centuries later dark and brooding artists would seek inspiration in ancient (to them) Gothic cathedrals. Today's Goths are therefore emblematic, not of the Goths of antiquity, but of 19th century authors' takes on middle ages architecture critics views on what a Goth would have been like.

[@alpharius8264]

No one so far could plausible explain to me how the name of an east germanic tribe became synonyme with that sub culture

[@alpharius8264]

@Águila701 the romans Ambitions toclaim their big titty goth GF was the main reason behind the war

[@starfox300]

Ironically most of the Goths had probably blond hair

[@Jon-mh9lk]

@@jesseberg3271 False. Gothic architecture originally comes from the places the Goths settled. It's genuine Gothic aesthetics. This later interpretation you gave is sadly very rampant and stems from anti-germanism in the Latin countries.

[@NoOne-xd1gw]

The Goths had nothing to lose, they fought like no tomorrow.

[@gastonhitw720]

Sometimes that did not helped them, or maybe most of the time

[@eggtarts286]

So did Vercingetorix. So did Sertorius. So did Spartacus. It was more than desperation.

[@Roy-em2my]

All those foreign mercenaries Rome used might be brilliant at time but in many of these videos they are the first to ditch

[@zuboy4272]

Better die in Romans land rather than being in hunnic lands

[@gastonhitw720]

@@zuboy4272 hunnic tribes recruited many germanic tribes, better be with the huns than being killed by them :)

[@joshhilado7291]

Most painful stories about Rome: 1. Death of Aurelian 2. Sack of Rome 3. Death of Valens Edit: I forgot the 4th one: The entirety of Honorius' reign/ Death of Stillicho

[@umaransari9765]

What about Humiliation of Valerian?

[@zakariamattu8613]

Also the disastrous campaign of Julian the apostate

[@juliuscaesar8925]

Death of Caesar Majorian

[@stepanpytlik4021]

And many more...

[@truthissacred]

@@zakariamattu8613 if he wasn't killed he would have won lol

[@earthenjadis8199]

"The nightmarish clashes with the Goths." Legionnaires! Hold your fire until you can see the mascara around their eyes!

[@Khanaseur]

Peter Newhouse he dances and plays the cymbals in vile Nilotic rites!

[@rawjawbone]

Goths respond by calling on Siouxsie and the Banshees.

[@leonardticsay8046]

Richard Becker a stampede of Doc Martens

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

@Peter Newhouse they call their division the "femboys"

[@EinFelsbrocken]

*rumbling in the distance* Legionaire 1: "Your hear this..? Its _them_ ..." Legionaire 2: "W-what is this sound..?" The rumbling: *HOOOW CAN YOU SEEE INTOO MY EEEYEEES, LIKE OPEEEN DOOORSS??*

[@skyshatter3633]

Adrianople is a such place that when you talk about "Battle of Adrianople" you must say which year .. i guess you know why

[@ericmarley7060]

One of Valens' few remaining bodyguards actually jumped from the second-floor window of the burning building Valens was sheltered in and told them Valens was inside, hoping that maybe Valens could be made a hostage if the Goths had any sense. But it was too late by that point, and the fire couldn't be put out. Whether the Goths even tried to put it out or even realized their "mistake" isn't known for certain.

[@jozzieokes3422]

For real?

[@Dante-fb3ck]

My brain: "You already know what's going to happen you don't have to watch this video" Me: "Yeah, but it's Kings and Generals" *Clicks on video* My brain: -_-

[@stockrex]

I'm just wondering why the Roman Right just did absolutely nothing.. or something is slightly missing out of the story lol

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

It's addictive. 😬😬🙃🙂🙌🏻

[@tomblakemoremusic]

@@stockrex As far as I can tell, they were waiting for orders to engage, however upon seeing their left flank and a lot of the center routing, they themselves began to leave the battlefield. When word was finally sent to them to engage, they had actually already retreated, Rome wasn't what it had been in this period, discipline was lacking. In the video I think they just didn't show the flank retreating quick enough and it led to it feeling quite confusing haha! Having read up on it, it seems the right flank basically just ran away.

[@darthvenator2487]

The Romans treated my ancestors like crap. Adrianople was the payback.

[@SteelValyrian]

@@darthvenator2487 So the circle turns

[@donaldpetersen2382]

At least 50% of my motivation comes from this channels frequent quality content. Thank you very much

[@KingsandGenerals]

We appreciate the kind words!

[@user-xd6em2zv6b]

@@KingsandGenerals are you guys working the muslim empire's invasion of north africa and spain?

[@praeposter]

Nice job on correcting the mistakes so fast!

[@CommieRaptor]

Many people think, that in the time, when Westeen Roman Empire had been degradating in the end of 4th century, its Eastern part was in a Golden Age, but that is not true. After the battle of Adrianopolis suffered exactly Eastern Roman Empire.

[@yungtoolshed251]

Eastern Rome was on the decline as well until I’d say either Leo or Zeno. Anastasius(however you spell his name) was the only good emperor prior to the rise of Justinian.

[@ari3903]

@@yungtoolshed251 Justinian was a shit emperor tbh

[@SamuelHallEngland]

Maybe the East was golden in terms of culture and quality of life, but not military success or security.

[@pyrphoros8739]

The east had the worse enemys. Not only did the eastern empire have to defend against babarians, but they also had the sassanid empire looming in the eastern border, binding most off the eastern roman military in a permanent border standoff.

[@althesian9741]

Yung Toolshed Justin I and Anastasius were two well competent emperors who helped maintain the empire economically and left the empire with a massive surplus of money and a stable currency. Justinian while a great “dreamer” and had big ambitions it was unrealistic. The good old days of the republic and principate had ended. No longer are the roman armies large as before. The crisis of the 3rd century while certainly recovered left the roman empire badly battered as a whole. Especially manpower reserves. The roman state was forced to cut more funding to the military and reduced in size and costly equipment. His initial war went well enough against the vandals but invasion towards sicily and southern italy are not worthwhile conquests. The ostrogothic kingdom had paid homage to the eastern roman empire and had been a vassal state for a while and could most certainly used as a buffer against the lombards and franks. There was no need for an invasion other than symbolic reasons and capturing rome for the sake of it. Justinian signed an unpopular peace treaty with the sassanids that saw massive tribute given when he could have pressed his advantage. The recent victory at dara and despite defeat at callinicum saw massive persian casualties and was a pyrrhic one for the persians. Combined with white hun invasions, justinian could have put pressure on the far more dangerous sassanids and put them to the sword but he let that chance slip by and figured paying them was a better alternative. Justinian was also highly unpopular. Massive taxes were levied at the expense of his people for expensive public and military expenditures. It was also not helped that john the cappadocian, justinian’s taxman was a corrupt and debauched man while certainly kept the imperial coffers filled, exhorted a lot of money from the populace gathering much resentment that culminated in the bloody nika riots. Justinian’s invasion of the west also left his eastern frontier exposed, khosrow I well informed of justinian’s new conquests broke the so-called “eternal peace” treaty and poured across the euphrates and saw massive sackings of cities such as antioch. Its population carted off like a trophy and to add insult to injury khosrow built a new city called “khosrow’s better antioch” which looked almost like the previously burned antioch and let these captured prisoners stay there. Justinan to me while he certainly had big dreams was not very realistic in his goals and he lacked any empathy for his people who hated his rule. The previously filled treasury became virtually empty and the empire became bankrupt. Justinian’s bungling of his attempts to alleviate the justinian plague made him levy more taxes from the population to “fix” the problem, showing his lack of empathy for the suffering of his people. He is mixed to me in his legacy.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Goths: invade Rome: I’m not going to financially recover from this.

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

Imperial China got hit like this quite a few times too but survived, with or without new dynasty in charge. Compare to Roman, did China have bigger money reserves and better at bounce back from financial disasters? What did they have Roman did not?

[@pokeman5000]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 The answer, like many things in the ancient world, is complicated. China had the Silk road to India and years of experience dealing with nomadic invaders. Furthermore Chinese land, if managed correctly, can yield an unbelievable amount of agriculture thanks to the Yangtze river and its tributaries. The European Rhine can't even compare because most of it go through unfarmable land (by ancient tech standards). Its the reason alot of Roman food was imported from Egypt, grown from the Nile. This explanation alone doesn't even scratch the surface. It could honestly be a 30+ minute video explaining the logistics and resources available to ancient China. Its very much the reason England demanded access to its markets by the East India Company in the seventeenth century.

[@shorewall]

China didn't exist. The land existed, the people existed. Same as in Europe. But in China, many empires rose and fell. Just because you are ignorant of Chinese or Muslim history, don't lump all their dynasties and empires into one blob. We talk about the Muslim world, and China as a whole, while understanding the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, and other kingdoms and dynasties. That's because we are educated on European history, and are ignorant of others.

[@pokeman5000]

@@shorewall Thats precisely what everyone does when speaking about a region in general... Regardless of where. You can do the exact same thing for Europe, Africa and the America's. they all had multiple different empires/kingdoms/theocracies/republics/confederates influencing them at one point or another but as a whole its considered the regions history. Just as China's many different states are considered Chinese history. Regardless of what the CCP like to "omit"

[@Thormil576]

Thanakon Praepanich manpower

[@ariyoiansky291]

I love the effort you guys put in to ensure accuracy and depth; from the information presented, to the visual representation of the arms and armor used during the particular period, and the military units and key people involved.

[@adamschaeffer4057]

Interesting to see how poor leadership, arrogance and a series of unfortunate events can spell defeat for even the mightiest of empires. Probably good advice for some modern nations to remember

[@adamschaeffer4057]

@Вхламинго Russian mic drop. I feel you... but I have been watching the miniseries Chernobyl the past few days and if that wasn't unfortunate for Ukraine and Western Europe I don't know what is. Sometimes life hands you lemons with bugs inside them. Good for nothing

[@ricky-sanchez]

America is modeled behind this exact string of events. Our founding fathers didn't apply to much thought into their government....

[@lyonvensa]

Corrupt subordinates as well. I believe that if Valens was actually in Thrace he can integrate some of the Goths into the army and at least minimize the logistical crisis. He's not that great of an emperor, but he's not incompetent either.

[@YeeeeGreg]

Great video as always! I just wanted to point out that it’s been awesome to see this channel grow and become more popular over time. I subscribed when the K&G only had about 250,000 subs, so it’s great for me to see this channel receive the respect and recognition it deserves. Next up is 2 million subs!

[@jweb9265]

This channel is frickin great. I can’t believe the content you guys pump out at such a high level. Thanks!!!

[@bean10cabarita96]

I would never have gotten into history if i hadn't found your channel, now i love learning history on my own

[@TheWeirdMusic]

I am so frickin' thankful for your videos! I always have one playing in the background. And, Mr. Narrator, your voice is AMAZING!

[@akostorma3930]

Last time I was this early Emperor Valentinianus I was still raging

[@kylefisher5138]

it must royally suck that a battle the Western Roman Empire wasnt even involved in led to their collaspe

[@tylerellis9097]

TheLocalLt This^ people always forget it was 1 Empire 2 Emperors. A Co-division Of Rulers not Empires and it ended in 480.

[@SantomPh]

while they split the geographical rule between East and West it was "one" Empire ruled by 2 emperors and 2 junior emperors. The events here heavily involved the Western Empire. The Eastern Empire's enemies were Persian empires and later the Islamic caliphates and Turkic forces- the Goths, Huns , Gauls, Celts and Vandals were the Western Empire's enemies.

[@acrylic1176]

It was interconnected, the defeats of the barbarians in the north against the huns made them desperate to cross the empire's borders. They had nothing to lose and they probably resolved themselves for such a result resulting to great migration and the fall of the west

[@YeeeeGreg]

I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a seeing this channel for the first time. I’d be so dumbfounded by the amount of excellent historical content

[@irfaanrahim4523]

Excellent rendition of the battle, thank you very much.

[@mikeruxpin2829]

Major historic battle actually with context behind it, thank you!

[@REDDRAKON]

The sound of broken glass haunts my dreams.

[@hioman]

It makes mine

[@bigcungusg7539]

Hi from Adrianople (Edirne) 👋🏻

[@elhombredeoro955]

Just when I needed a video on the battle of Adrianople, you came up with one.

[@kirklandbuchanan3647]

The intro with that soundtrack was moving beyond words. Thank u ❤

[@JimH-vk8ft]

Oh yeah, the Gothic Wars, wasn’t that in 2006 when some Evanescence fans and some My Chemical Romance fans had a spat on MySpace?

[@KingsandGenerals]

We call ourselves Evaheads, ok?

[@JimH-vk8ft]

Kings and Generals Very much noted, loved the video guys, you’re all awesome!

[@ariadneschild8460]

😆😅🤣

[@Luey_Luey]

20:42 "Blinded by his pride, and deafened by some garbage his shit advisors told him, Valens committed the worst mistake of his life, and decided to attack the Goths on his own"

[@OtakuExtreme25]

Unbiased history

[@AlphaCrucis]

Mike Duncan's "History of Rome" podcast on this part was pretty good, but the visuals are so helpful. I love seeing the geography laid out in front of me.

[@rafaelcarvalho3928]

You make me feel so happy. Thank you kings and generals very much!

[@alejandrop.s.3942]

-Hey, those desperate fierce warriors with nothing to lose are asking us for help. Maybe we ought let them cross our borders and betray them. Notice that they have an overwhelming force compared to the forces which the Empire may concentrate at the moment. - Yeah, why not? What could go wrong? One of the greatest nonsenses of the Roman Empire alongside Arausio and Manzikert.

[@longyu9336]

Imagine being forced to sell your own sons and daughters to a slavemaster and the promised food turns out to be a chunk of rotten dog meat.

[@arami187]

"Grrrr!"- Emperor Valentinian's Last Words, Probably. Better than Czar Nicholas II's last words- "WHAT?!"

[@markkuzmenkov2366]

great video.thank you so much for your great content.this is my favorite history channel on youtube

[@YouJustAmazeMe]

OMG this has always been my fav ep from bazbattles, and I've been waiting for an episode to expand or followup on it, awesome to see it here on k&g!!

[@YouJustAmazeMe]

Whoa,totally different narrative in this vid..very interesting!

[@chickengoose8708]

Love you guys and your amazing content

[@umaransari9765]

Yep, even though they are best, they still improve their quality literally Week by Week

[@AlexAckerl]

This one hurts so much.

[@jamesworrell6825]

Really love this channel, keep it up you guys!

[@josephclark7814]

Exceptional production, as always 👏👏👏

[@malgusvitiate7002]

It’s like what the opening trailer of Total War: Attila says: “I have seen the end of days, and years from now men will say, here began the fall of Rome."

[@TheJaviferrol]

Romans: Theres can surely be no one worse than these bloodthirsty Goths Attila: Hello

[@acatsquad243]

Timur: Bonjour

[@shorewall]

All asians. :D

[@ninjaa6952]

@@shorewall weird cause Asians mostly lost and got conquered by Europeans.

[@Sina.575]

​​@@shorewallthe G oths were Also originally from central Asia And northern Persia lmao.

[@22vx]

Love it! Thanks guys!

[@brokenbridge6316]

And I would like to express my gratitude toward this video's creators for making such an amazing epic story out of this battle. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@daliberista4344]

It seems surreal seeing how an unengaged flank would just watch then flee a goddamn battle. Idiocy in its highest.

[@enesbilgin937]

fear is a strong emotion

[@daliberista4344]

@@enesbilgin937 or incompetence as it happened during rome's devastating defeats: this, manzikert and dyrrachium

[@diegokaqui60]

if they just attacked the line from the back....the goths would have lost.

[@jtgd]

“Our men is fleeing the field of battle! This is a shameful display”

[@Psychol-Snooper]

Yeah. The geniuses all die in battle. That's how that works!

[@RureadyStudio]

Thanks for the information you provided.

[@_Ocariao]

Best hour of sunday! You are the best, KaG

[@culiusjaesar]

Before Watching the Video : Oh boy , i cant wait for the Eastern Romans to finally kick some Gothic ass after Western Rome getting humilliated ! After Watching the Video : Well , anyway have your heard of Justinian's Restoration ?

[@jesseberg3271]

Is it a Sith legend?

[@tylerellis9097]

They didn’t get the Visigoths thou. Rip Ostrogoths

[@iuliusconstantcornelio2018]

The Battle of Adrianople is way to overrated....

[@KingofEuropa07]

What a pathetic display of coping

[@ricky-sanchez]

The goths sacked eastern Rome countless times. Especially during the crusades.

[@logosdei]

What about a Punic Wars series?

[@KingsandGenerals]

Maybe, down the line.

[@logosdei]

Thanks guys, great content, and quality as always.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

@GoodGirlKate History is an ocean of unfathomable potential.

[@user-xd6em2zv6b]

@@logosdei can't wait for the video about the Islamic empires invasion of africa and spain!

[@Acolith]

@@KingsandGenerals especially First Punic War isn't properly covered on youtube! that would be great to see

[@geraltgrey-mane695]

nice Great timeing right when I was gonna start cleaning this pop up :D Sweet know the time will go faster haha thank you!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , K & G .

[@keaganwilliams96]

I fricken love Kings and Generals , This is my adult life “cartoons on Saturday “

[@RaidenTheRipper950]

Poor Valens, he had potential, he deserved better.

[@rabbani3094]

Similar to Romanos IV.

[@flagearvideo]

Great! Dear Sirs of K&G, could you do an episode about the city of Hatra's defences against Trajan's and Severus' sieges? I believe it's the only important city of the period to withstand not one, but two, massive Roman attacks. They even used "wasp bombs" or "bee bombs" to disrupt the siege formations...

[@Gloopular]

Great show!

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

You are proof that all history books should have pictures and maps

[@happycompy]

Been watching K&G since you guys were small enough to be commenting on MY channel! The early Rome 2 days. Good shit! Next up, 2m subs!

[@MalayArcher]

:)

[@Iusti018]

Great video! Thanks for your effort :-)

[@yigityaren2098]

Hey thanks for great works. It’s nearly august 30th, so are you , dear admins, planning make a video about the great offensive? Thanks for good job and objective presentation.

[@AngryHistorian87]

"The beginning of the nightmarish clashes with the Goths" Battle of Abritus: Am I a joke to you?

[@alexandrejosedacostaneto381]

Yeah, they even covered the Battle of Abritus last year. Sure, that battle wasn't as disastrous as Adrianople, as the Goths were only looking to plunder and not settle, it was still a complete debacle for the Romans, with their emperor being killed, most of the Danube legions destroyed and another round of civil war starting

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

Just waiting for another ceaser's civil war video,and when is the next napoleonic wars video coming??

[@ramyarkohzadi3336]

You really need to make a series about second punic wars...I believe your channel will be more popular than ever to do so

[@eugenecoleman8525]

@Kings and Generals I have a suggestion for a series, one that I haven't seen anywhere else. The series would be a timeline and mapping of Roman expansion and important moments. You could use the videos of battles you already have and link or show them at the appropriate times. There are plenty of series out there detailing different aspects of Roman history, but I've never seen anything showing Roman expansion from Italian city to the fall of the empire, who they were warring with and what was going on. I've only found bit and pieces, or only Roman history from one aspect etc.

[@tamerlane3931]

the wisigoths deserve their own series ....from adrianople to spain , through rome and southern france it will make a good series

[@Fordo007]

Even knowing how this ends... I still watch hoping Valens waits for Gratian...

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

LOVE THIS CHANNEL !!!!

[@cengizsogutlu]

Thanks from videon im from Edirne/Adrianople Turkey

[@dre9926]

Ah Adrianople: The battle where 2/3 of a WHOLE ENTIRE ARMY caught the fade, and an Emperor's body wasn't even found

[@reginaldbauer5243]

The decisive Visigoth victory at the Battle of Adrianople left the Eastern Roman Empire nearly defenseless. If Adrianople is usually considered a turning point for the Western Roman Empire and is the start of the end, then why was this defeat considered a turning point for the WEST rather than the EAST? The battle took place in the Eastern Half (very close to the capital) and the Eastern army, not the Western army, was defeated in the field. The Western army never arrived on time and never took part in the battle so they retained their military forces. The Theodosian walls were not up at the time either. In the battle of Adrianople, the bulk of the eastern army was lost, the officers of that army were not just military men, but senior administrators and officials. So the loss of that army in battle would be the equivalent of if you had wiped out a massive percentage of the bureaucracy of a government as well. A great many of Valens’s court nobles and veteran officers also perished and we have a better picture of who exactly was lost such as Trajenus, who had commanded the first operations against the Goths two years before; Sebastantius, who had fought against them with such success during the last few months; and Valerianus, master of the imperial stables, and Equitius, master of the palace. Amongst the losses, thirty-five senior officers fell, both regimental commanders and staff officers, along with two-thirds of the veterans that Valens had brought together throughout the empire. In the aftermath of this defeat, the Eastern court found itself without a government as the emperor and his generals perished in the battlefield. Not only were the military officials lost but also the civilian ministers and the insignia of power and even the imperial treasury had travelled with the emperor and so we either killed or missing. And to add, prior to Adrianople, barbarians would serve in the Roman army, and even settle in Roman territory (but always on Roman terms such as barbarian soldiers would serve under Roman officers and being broken up in to smaller units, leading to the the barbarians being dispersed over a large geographical area to make it more difficult for them to rebel against Roman authorities). Yet, with Adrianople a large body of barbarians were allowed to settle inside the empire on the Goth's terms. The Goths remained autonomous from Roman rule, essentially becoming a nation within a nation. Why not march on Adrianople? Besides, the Goths owed their loyalty to their king first.

[@reginaldbauer5243]

@@uboatfreak4390 And probably because the Western part relied more on the barbarians. As Rome, particularly in the late period, became more cash-strapped, the advantage of the barbarians was they were cheap: a few rights and privileges and a little piece of land. Rome under the Republic and early Rome as an Empire relied more upon citizens as soldiers. But there is another issue as to why Rome increasingly relied on barbarians. There was the question that the citizen armies were too loyal to their general and ended up making him emperor, a consideration later emperors took very seriously when raising a new citizen army. Another factor why Rome increasingly relied on barbarians has to do with Roman military organization. Rome was built around its infantry and they never developed good cavalry of their own. Barbarian forces, however, were adept at cavalry, as well as archery on horseback, in large numbers, leaving the Roman military system of infantry, used centuries ago, outdated in effectiveness. Yet another factor was that Rome’s civil wars between armies backing a particular general for emperor weakened the overall army of the empire, leaving its own military forces decimated. Thus, Roman armies relied upon barbarians to reconstitute their forces. Also on top of that it became increasingly difficult to pull manpower away from the fields as landowners tried their hardest to keep the best workers for themselves. People in general had less vitality and preferred the sensual and easy pleasures of a peaceful life to the hard dangerous life of a soldier, the population of the empire was massive and yet it struggled to find recruits and this is in contrast to the far smaller Republic, Caesar and Augustus actually thought the army was to big in their time. it's further supported that the numbers of recruiting declined more due to a "cultural decline" than merely an economic one by the fact that the largest recruiting ground's of the empire were the less civilized province's and amongst the more bellicose populations such as Gaul and Pannonia who had managed to maintain some of their barbarian vitality and lust for battle which the comfortable and pleasure seeking addicted Romans had lost over time.

[@denniscleary7580]

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏

[@HedgeYourPosition]

Simply EPIC!!!

[@ShaoJianDuoGuai]

Roman Empire: Yes! Stop everything, we watch this now! Roman Defeat: It can wait...

[@danielchequer5842]

"Don't they know... It's the end of the world... It ended when you said gooodbyeee"

[@jonathanflores9991]

Fellow Dovah legionnaire

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

A man of culture and taste, I see.

[@Scorpion51123314512]

The Battle of Adrianople is one of my most favorite well known battles another one I hope you can soon cover is the battle of Edessa.

[@stygian8049]

Great work as always! By the way, will you guys make series about Italian wars?

[@KingsandGenerals]

Yep, the scripts are being researched as we speak!

[@nadimsarieddine9835]

Valentinian I: Ragequits Valentinian I has left the game

[@derludwigwietondon3559]

The Battle in teuteburg forrest had an permanent Impact in roman conquest

[@thepuppelpuppel4175]

The conquered Brtitain and Mesopatamia after.

[@tropicblue3457]

Germania was irrelevant to the Romans, a poor infertile land covered in swamps and forests. The battle of Teutoburg meant nothing to the incredible military Roman machine of that time.

[@starfox300]

@@tropicblue3457 People always spout this classic meme

[@LG-rg4ut]

This deserves an update

[@AYVYN]

When your recruits get behind your senior soldiers, you can’t even do a feigned retreat. This was mayhem. Thanks for another great video.

[@nayanaariyarathna2625]

this is very sadd.....this is where everything went soo soo wrong

[@starfox300]

@Jonny B The tribes were only Barbarians in the eyes of the Romans. But in terms of their military strategies they were on par and often better than the Romans

[@Pantsinabucket]

Been here since it was Nurrik and Phoenix @ 4K Subs. Really sad to see how OfficiallyDevin’s voice has carried this channel up to 1.5M subscribers yet his channel has barely grown since he started doing voice work for them.

[@jonathanpriel5013]

thanks you!

[@siciidxuseensucuudi9750]

Thnks for kings and generals

[@stepanpytlik4021]

I would like to say some Dovahhatty line but I can't remember any at the moment. Good video btw.

[@fatalshore5068]

I did think of Dova when I was looking at the little picture of Shapur II. That's not what he looked like K&G!

[@loserpooper]

"It all goes downhill from here..."

[@sarmatiancougar7556]

Alans were NOT cousins to Huns by any stretch of imagination. Alans were Iranic people closely related to Parthians. Huns were Uralic people distantly related to Magyars. It's like saying French people are cousins to the Japanese.

[@saltyshanker]

Yeah, I have noticed that Kings and Generals is becoming increasingly historically inaccurate on most things.

[@duxromanorum9861]

not really. the magyars were at fiest related to the suomi, kanthi and mansi. they magyarised some turkic tribes(that they themselves were cousins to the khazars, huns, kazakgs etc)one by one.

[@92mariotta]

The best military history channel. Ever

[@SamuelHallEngland]

A heavily covered topic, but your animations are the best imho! What happened to Santoninus, the skilled Eastern Roman horse commander in the end though? Would be great if you could cover the Gothic-Alan last stand against the Huns in the mountains (I assume it's the Carpathians) in a future video. I guess written sources are slim, but it sounds fascinating to me!

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

23:58 is nobody going to talk about how unit after unit of battle hardened goths were being destroyed by romans who had been boiling in heat...!!

[@dovahkiin3379]

Actually those gothic units didn't have air conditioning atop The hill they were in the same shoes

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

@@dovahkiin3379 I know but there was a bit of greenery there and but the romans were standing on complete open ground.

[@dovahkiin3379]

@@skyhappy I don't know really, but still if it was you can't mention that the Romans had Superior equipment otherwise their victory will sound less heroic and cool that's a crime for the wannabes

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

@@dovahkiin3379 Thats true

[@Xfire209]

The goths were fighting against a large force of battle hardened Palace troops who had vastly superior training, discipline and equipement. The only men in the Gothic army who were comparable to them were the Gothic leaders and their comitatus who were few in numbers. The bulk of their forces were lightly armed and armored and had no formal military training.

[@user-kt1lh5sz1i]

*The Goths send their regards*

[@benborja3200]

Mudda....

[@mscompare1837]

*Very Nice information*

[@PSIRockOmega]

I'd love to see more videos on the fall of Rome and its battles.

[@usingThaForce]

This is real Entertainment for real intellectuals

[@annieroseloquinario2044]

Caesar will roll to his grave, I guess.

[@benborja3200]

Red Wedding/Wildling Story: Roman Edition!

[@Nasir3623]

Excellent video. Winter war?

[@Monkey_SK]

As always, another great video! Looking at Valen's position it would seem he lacked the support or belief of his generals, most simply seem to leave him to it. Do we know if any of his generals went on to claim power after his death? Was Valen's too hands on and this caused rifts? Why would his bodyguard leave so early, could they have been paid off?