Historian Reacts - Accuracy of Roman fortifications?

[@InvictaHistory]

Huge thanks to Dr. Goldsworthy for joining us! On top of reading his books, you can catch him on his KZbin channel: www.youtube.com/@AdrianGoldsworthytheAuthor

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[@awesomehpt8938]

The thing about centurion that bothers me is how easily dispatched the 9th legion was. You’re telling me an entire legion was wiped out in a single day? Subjected to an ambush that they weren’t warned about because apparently they had no scouts and auxiliary units around the core of the legion. At teutorburg it took an entire coalition of German tribes to wipe out the army there and it took days for the Germans to fully defeat them. And they also had the benefit of the allied scouts betraying the romans. It makes it look like that when Romans march in a forest and get ambushed then they’re pretty much automatically doomed as if a teutorburg is a common occurrence. When tuetorburg was an oddity because Arminius was able to stack the odds in the Germans favour so heavily because he understood Roman military doctrine so well and was able to surprisingly gather all these tribes that usually hate each other about as much as they hate the romans.

[@jarlnils435]

most importantly, Arminius knew how to isolate small units at the back of Varus army, to destroy them. All attacks on the collumn were always from the middle to the rearguard, never the vanguard. The entire plan was made around slowing the last units enough until they loose contact to the main army. than destroy them and continue with the next, while the middle part of the army tries to join with the vanguard, so that communication would not fall appart entirely. He created absolute chaos and panic by doing so. Imagine being in a unit which knows that because of previous attacks, the main army is a lot further down the road than you are. So you try to catch up. But you know that behind you is a century of men, who have the same problem, but they have to catch up with you. Varus can't help you and you can't help those behind you. All you can do is marching and listening to the battle and defend against fake attacks where you know, that it's only to slow you down.

[@TheBayru]

In the year -54 the inexperienced fourteenth legion (1 legion and 5 cohorts strong) under Sabinus and Cotta was totally wiped out in a single day by an ambushing force not much larger than itself. So why not?

[@rtk3543]

Hannibal ambushed an entire Roman army at Lake Trasimene.

[@jarlnils435]

@rtk3543 Hannibal was the only Commander in the written History of War who ever managed that

[@hammerman7755]

Great video and explanation of Dr. Goldsworthy. These collaborations are great to have a deeper understanding of how things worked in the Roman Empire.

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Goldsworthy has been one of my favorite authors, even before I discovered this channel. (which I also love) So, so, fantastic to see you two collaborating!

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Quite a nice episode! I've been much enjoying the diversity of content lately.

[@InvictaHistory]

Glad to hear it! I also appreciate being able to bounce around a bit

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

Good video, very informative! I'm not a historian, just an "old" Army Ranger and own all 4 of these movies because they are entertaining! 😊

[@RealPeoplePerson]

Great explanation of the role of border fortifications and garrisons, and the dynamic of raids and punitive expeditions.

[@buzzpounds6462]

The movie King Arthur has always bothered me. Why would the Saxons, who had boats, land north of Hadrian's Wall. And then attack it?

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Prof. Goldsworthy is the GOAT of historians.

[@ISawABear]

Oh finally someone remembered the movie Centurion exists!

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My favorite author and my favorite subject of roman history (frontiers/outposts/forts/etc). What a deal !

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This collaboration are so incredible!!!

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Thank you both for the video

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Awesome! Another collab with Dr. Goldsworthy!

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Very cool video, when it ended I couldn’t believe 54 min went by that fast

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What a nice surprise. I love these collaborations with scholars!

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Yeaaaaaaa the sequel we needed!!! Also this is a great topic

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10 minutes in, so far very interesting. Thanks again for this great upload!

[@bsaneil]

Great video. I have a lot of Adrian Goldsworthy's books and admire him as a writer and historian. I do think he was very positive about some of these films and a little kinder than I would have been. Why, for example, are milecastles never depicted (as well as the ditches, vallum) and fortifications that never existed 'invented' for the films? In the Arthur film the CGI forts are almost perfectly accurate - aside from the weird collonades added to the gates. The historical advisor must've been pulling their hair out when these were added! The Last Legion has Hadrian's wall built in a sort of crazy paving rubble wall style, with absolutely made up fortifications shown at regular intervals. Add to that the usual tropes - leather armour, wrist guards and non - roman tribes dressed as punk rockers and acting as if they are on speed.

[@yakupdemir5016]

A palanka was a wooden fortification used by the Ottoman Empire (Wooden Ottoman fortresses built against Vlad Drakul vampires, cannibal Slavs, and human-eating Kozaks in the Ottoman Danube defense) extensively in certain regions of Southeast Europe, including Hungary, the Balkans and the Black Sea coast against rival states, especially the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. Such wooden forts could be built and expanded quickly, and usually contained a small garrison. These fortifications varied in size and shape but were primarily constructed of palisades. Palankas could be adjacent to a town[7] and later they could be replaced by a more formidable stone fortress as in the case of Uyvar.[8] Palankas could also be built as an extension of the main fortress.[9] Many Ottoman forts were a mixture of palanka type fortifications and stonework.[10] Evliya Çelebi describes the word palanka also as a technique of timber masonry

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Awesome video, very much appreciated.

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Beginning to watch it, this is quite promising!

[@InvictaHistory]

Dr. Goldsworthy is an excellent speaker and you'll find his chat extremely loaded with some great information!

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Thank you for the great content.

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This is a comfy late night history lesson from Liquid Chris.

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His novel Vindolanda is a must read for anyone who enjoyed this video!!

[@lexington476]

This is cool. and it gives me four more movies to watch 🙂.

[@JoeyP946]

cavalry is actually quite useful in sieges, they can be used to great effect to sally out or harass the enemy when they gathering supplies, etc.. Perhaps mention that Rome used carrier pigeons for messages. I mean they were used since like 3000 BC

[@Makrangoncias]

I expected Mr Godsworthy to point out that the areas behind the wall would have been heavily forested and around the settlements there would be plenty of farmlands as well. The current empty and bleak look only came to be in the 18th century.

[@ramonruijgt4532]

think the hadrians frontier. could be a more defence in depth with the outer towers/castles. but the wall is kinda the last line. you want to fight at. think in the end its all about buying time to react and stike you talked about.

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Yo Adrian! Im here from your channel

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This is awesome. Thank you.

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Very cool Love your videos

[@codyc7477]

Sweet! I love this guy!

[@michaeldunne338]

On keeping quiet about a defeat, isn't it possible the Romans did something like that with the Battle of Barbalissos around 252 AD, in a conflict with the Sassanid Persians? Seems the only reference to the battle comes from the Persian side though, with Shapur's carvings/inscriptions Naqsh e Rostam (claiming to have destroyed a Roman force of 60,000 near the Euphrates river).

[@SirCheezersIII]

Could equally be as likely that it was Sassanid propaganda. Or perhaps they were misattributing their victory at Edessa later, where 70,000 Romans were defeated? Guess we won't know for sure until archaeological digs corroborate it.

[@Couponuser16]

So when are you gonna bring back MASSIVE BATTLES where Dr. Goldsworthy as Rome faces off against Dr. Konijnendijk as Sparta in Rome II?

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[@thescarletpumpernel3305]

never understood why the Saxons in the King Arthur movie sailed to the north of the wall and landed with the intention of pillaging the south.

[@Aveline__790]

Great to see this

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Top shelf content

[@brennanmacdowell284]

This is great!

[@harriehausenman8623]

The audio quality is quite bad. Relly hard to listen to 😥

[@compuguy24]

45.06 ditch mentioned, he should get together with the other guy about ditches. :D

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Goldsworthy again? Super cool stuff

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This video is definitely goldsworthy

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Always introduce the guest. It's the polite thing to do. Don't let them introduce themselves. Don't force them to explain why they're worthy of being on the show.

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

Flavianum lidaria?

[@oberstul1941]

Great author, great history. Cheers!

[@lexington476]

Based on what the presenter said. Have archaeologists ever found pieces of Hadrian's Wall in like farm houses, barns, roads, etc?

[@bsaneil]

Yes there are many buildings along its length where not only very recognisable square cut, Roman stones used, but there's the odd inscribed stone too.

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

It's interesting to count up legion with auxillareae.. Without these vthat legion looks really small.

[@Pillowcase]

So fun to listen to.

[@REB4444]

This was a very good movie but I think it failed at the box office because of bad marketing. I didn't even know it was out. The acting was very good, the action was great & it had some good historical underpinnings even if it was Hollywoodized with some creative liberties for dramatic effects.

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Goldsworthy GoldStandard

[@tavish4699]

Finally a historian that doesn’t mix his political opinions with the facts

Hollywood meets Adrian’s wall

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[@evanhughes7609]

48:56 OK, WTF was that?

[@maaderllin]

Ok but nobody's gonna comment that Dr. ADRIAN Goldsworthy has a book on HADRIAN's wall?

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[@ScratchySpoon]

Dr. Goldsworthy was an awesome guest, I enjoyed listening to his comments. 👍

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Next react GWOT defenses 😂

[@evanhughes7609]

That King Arthur movie poses some interesting questions. Like why didn't the Germanic invaders land SOUTH of the wall? 🤣

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

But there were quite a lot of half- and totally razed fortresses on the top of the hills.. Remainders could be seen today still. What Brits call "tribal". These were dominem. BEFORE romans went there.

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[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

And I keep giggling about "Adrian" for t hat webcam. Adrian's wall. I mean... That's funny. Oh. He reminded us of all that rubbish.

[@spazzypengin]

I would love to see Dr. Goldsworthy and the Metatron do commentary like this together.

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@@spazzypengin I don't need that hack

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@@DanJuega You must work for history (s)hit

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@@spazzypengin Sure

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@@spazzypengin Or maybe he isn't interested in uneducated hacks like "metatron"

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oh wow im early. love htis.

[@WaldregTheGreat]

Is he asian?

[@nickcitron2369]

English...so, yes?

[@WaldregTheGreat]

@@nickcitron2369 his eyes look a bit asian