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
@sebastianbravo50284 жыл бұрын
YES!!!
@maxmuller86334 жыл бұрын
YEET
@bablubanna97294 жыл бұрын
Please make a vdieo on rajput kingdum of Mewar india
@umaransari97654 жыл бұрын
AYE AYE SIR!
@kebabinii75774 жыл бұрын
You have my like and bow, Valens
@Pravdik9184 жыл бұрын
"Unrest caused by religious divisions and terrible state of the Balkans... " I am sure that people will work these problems out in few years :)
@boiiiii96274 жыл бұрын
@eualadindeal well these were not the same people living there as it is now
@ibrahimmustafa24814 жыл бұрын
boiii ii doesn't matter, the region itself is cursed 😂
@boiiiii96274 жыл бұрын
@@ibrahimmustafa2481 true dat
@Trimondius4 жыл бұрын
@eualadindeal The balkan people are too busy tearing themselves apart. lol
@samyak95924 жыл бұрын
@eualadindeal bruh so much like India
@morgoth6154 жыл бұрын
11:08 "The Commies dispatched messages" Damn Reds lol
@hyltoniali2574 жыл бұрын
The World has always been red...with BLOOD...for da blood god, skulls...wait, wrong scene
@OtakuExtreme254 жыл бұрын
Buena fortuna anti commie ninja
@ArousedRat14 жыл бұрын
@@hyltoniali257 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD ! LET THE GALAXY BURN!
@Taistelukalkkuna4 жыл бұрын
Not only commies, but they were aided by ducks.
@danielconejos50204 жыл бұрын
@@ArousedRat1 Yes Inquisitor, this comment right here
@gandalfsseconduncle63094 жыл бұрын
Breaking news: Local Emperor too angry to live
@ch1efhugo1344 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@MaxwellAerialPhotography4 жыл бұрын
@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution screaming somewhat coherently at barbarians?
@awzthemusicalreviews4 жыл бұрын
@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution Cocaine and hookers ... wait, no that was Herb Abrams. My b
@NecromancyForKids4 жыл бұрын
@Charles Darwin the founder of evolution dying
@arami1874 жыл бұрын
I blame Wine laced with Opium. Oh wait, he would had been more Chill.
@morgoth6154 жыл бұрын
Another episode of "Oh so THIS caused the end of the Roman Empire" Part 2657
@pawelnowak94404 жыл бұрын
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
@mortache4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@bundleofhumble31194 жыл бұрын
It was actually the power hungry culture of Roman that destroyed and divided it from the inside.
@tylerellis90974 жыл бұрын
TheLocalLt Western Roman Empire had no more Legitimacy than the Eastern and it Fell in 480 with the Death of Julius Nepos
@tylerellis90974 жыл бұрын
Nirvana49 Nah the Komnenos Restored the Byzantines as a Great Power take a look at Byzantium in the 1100s it’s overall bigger than it was the in the 8th/9th centuries. 4th Crusade actually destroyed the Roman Empire, the successor states never achieved a fraction of the pre 1204 power. Constantinople the heartland and powerbase of the Empire was ruined permanently.
@Gorboduc4 жыл бұрын
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.
@austinng11374 жыл бұрын
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.
@mikeburley82554 жыл бұрын
Kind of sounds like now .
@8ncient14 жыл бұрын
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 :'(
@ronb71894 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mattwithahat38572 жыл бұрын
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.
@henrybatten33154 жыл бұрын
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."
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
The Quadi would probably have seen it as proof that the gods had struck him down for lying about whose fault the war was.
@erickrasniewski5674 жыл бұрын
Still my favorite death
@alexandrugheorghe56104 жыл бұрын
😂
@alexanderbergbacka6825 Жыл бұрын
Bro literally died mad
@Notimportant37373 ай бұрын
@@erickrasniewski567close second is carus. It’s ambiguous how exactly he died but I choose to believe that he was actually struck by lightning during that insanely successful push into sassanid Persia.
@donaldpetersen23824 жыл бұрын
At least 50% of my motivation comes from this channels frequent quality content. Thank you very much
@KingsandGenerals4 жыл бұрын
We appreciate the kind words!
@الياسغالب-خ8ز4 жыл бұрын
@@KingsandGenerals are you guys working the muslim empire's invasion of north africa and spain?
@ElBandito4 жыл бұрын
Back when Goths were extremely extroverted.
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
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.
@alpharius82644 жыл бұрын
No one so far could plausible explain to me how the name of an east germanic tribe became synonyme with that sub culture
@alpharius82644 жыл бұрын
@Águila701 the romans Ambitions toclaim their big titty goth GF was the main reason behind the war
@starfox3004 жыл бұрын
Ironically most of the Goths had probably blond hair
@Jon-mh9lk4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@skyshatter36334 жыл бұрын
Adrianople is a such place that when you talk about "Battle of Adrianople" you must say which year .. i guess you know why
@NoOne-xd1gw4 жыл бұрын
The Goths had nothing to lose, they fought like no tomorrow.
@gastonhitw7204 жыл бұрын
Sometimes that did not helped them, or maybe most of the time
@eggtarts2864 жыл бұрын
So did Vercingetorix. So did Sertorius. So did Spartacus. It was more than desperation.
@Roy-em2my4 жыл бұрын
All those foreign mercenaries Rome used might be brilliant at time but in many of these videos they are the first to ditch
@zuboy42724 жыл бұрын
Better die in Romans land rather than being in hunnic lands
@gastonhitw7204 жыл бұрын
@@zuboy4272 hunnic tribes recruited many germanic tribes, better be with the huns than being killed by them :)
@earthenjadis81994 жыл бұрын
"The nightmarish clashes with the Goths." Legionnaires! Hold your fire until you can see the mascara around their eyes!
@Khanaseur4 жыл бұрын
Peter Newhouse he dances and plays the cymbals in vile Nilotic rites!
@rawjawbone4 жыл бұрын
Goths respond by calling on Siouxsie and the Banshees.
@leonardticsay80464 жыл бұрын
Richard Becker a stampede of Doc Martens
@tsarzamancorpdna4 жыл бұрын
@Peter Newhouse they call their division the "femboys"
@EinFelsbrocken4 жыл бұрын
*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??*
@praeposter4 жыл бұрын
Nice job on correcting the mistakes so fast!
@CommieRaptor4 жыл бұрын
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.
@yungtoolshed2514 жыл бұрын
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.
@ari39034 жыл бұрын
@@yungtoolshed251 Justinian was a shit emperor tbh
@SamuelHallEngland4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the East was golden in terms of culture and quality of life, but not military success or security.
@pyrphoros87394 жыл бұрын
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.
@althesian97414 жыл бұрын
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.
@ericmarley70604 жыл бұрын
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.
@jozzieokes34223 жыл бұрын
For real?
@hanihudini985 ай бұрын
Source: trust me bro
@Dante-fb3ck4 жыл бұрын
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: -_-
@MarkVrem4 жыл бұрын
I'm just wondering why the Roman Right just did absolutely nothing.. or something is slightly missing out of the story lol
@alexandrugheorghe56104 жыл бұрын
It's addictive. 😬😬🙃🙂🙌🏻
@tomblakemoremusic3 жыл бұрын
@@MarkVrem 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.
@darthvenator24873 жыл бұрын
The Romans treated my ancestors like crap. Adrianople was the payback.
@SteelValyrian2 жыл бұрын
@@darthvenator2487 So the circle turns
@jweb92654 жыл бұрын
This channel is frickin great. I can’t believe the content you guys pump out at such a high level. Thanks!!!
@YeeeeGreg4 жыл бұрын
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!
@12345678986742Ай бұрын
4 million now 😂😊
@joshhilado72914 жыл бұрын
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
@umaransari97654 жыл бұрын
What about Humiliation of Valerian?
@zakariamattu86134 жыл бұрын
Also the disastrous campaign of Julian the apostate
@juliuscaesar89254 жыл бұрын
Death of Caesar Majorian
@stepanpytlik40214 жыл бұрын
And many more...
@truthissacred4 жыл бұрын
@@zakariamattu8613 if he wasn't killed he would have won lol
@Luey_Luey4 жыл бұрын
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"
@OtakuExtreme254 жыл бұрын
Unbiased history
@ariyoiansky2914 жыл бұрын
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.
@YeeeeGreg4 жыл бұрын
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
@adamschaeffer40574 жыл бұрын
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
@adamschaeffer40574 жыл бұрын
@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-sanchez4 жыл бұрын
America is modeled behind this exact string of events. Our founding fathers didn't apply to much thought into their government....
@lyonvensa4 жыл бұрын
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.
@bean10cabarita964 жыл бұрын
I would never have gotten into history if i hadn't found your channel, now i love learning history on my own
@napoleonibonaparte71984 жыл бұрын
Goths: invade Rome: I’m not going to financially recover from this.
@thanakonpraepanich42844 жыл бұрын
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?
@pokeman50004 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@shorewall4 жыл бұрын
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.
@pokeman50004 жыл бұрын
@@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"
@Thormil5764 жыл бұрын
Thanakon Praepanich manpower
@AlphaCrucis4 жыл бұрын
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.
@kylefisher51384 жыл бұрын
it must royally suck that a battle the Western Roman Empire wasnt even involved in led to their collaspe
@tylerellis90974 жыл бұрын
TheLocalLt This^ people always forget it was 1 Empire 2 Emperors. A Co-division Of Rulers not Empires and it ended in 480.
@SantomPh4 жыл бұрын
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.
@acrylic11764 жыл бұрын
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
@mikeruxpin28294 жыл бұрын
Major historic battle actually with context behind it, thank you!
@chickengoose87084 жыл бұрын
Love you guys and your amazing content
@umaransari97654 жыл бұрын
Yep, even though they are best, they still improve their quality literally Week by Week
@logosdei4 жыл бұрын
What about a Punic Wars series?
@KingsandGenerals4 жыл бұрын
Maybe, down the line.
@logosdei4 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys, great content, and quality as always.
@eldorados_lost_searcher4 жыл бұрын
@GoodGirlKate History is an ocean of unfathomable potential.
@الياسغالب-خ8ز4 жыл бұрын
@@logosdei can't wait for the video about the Islamic empires invasion of africa and spain!
@Acolith4 жыл бұрын
@@KingsandGenerals especially First Punic War isn't properly covered on youtube! that would be great to see
@akostorma39304 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early Emperor Valentinianus I was still raging
@irfaanrahim45234 жыл бұрын
Excellent rendition of the battle, thank you very much.
@alejandrop.s.39424 жыл бұрын
-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.
@longyu93363 жыл бұрын
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.
@bigcungusg75394 жыл бұрын
Hi from Adrianople (Edirne) 👋🏻
@REDDRAKON4 жыл бұрын
The sound of broken glass haunts my dreams.
@hioman3 жыл бұрын
It makes mine
@kirklandbuchanan36479 ай бұрын
The intro with that soundtrack was moving beyond words. Thank u ❤
@malgusvitiate70022 жыл бұрын
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."
@YouJustAmazeMe4 жыл бұрын
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!!
@YouJustAmazeMe4 жыл бұрын
Whoa,totally different narrative in this vid..very interesting!
@culiusjaesar4 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
Is it a Sith legend?
@tylerellis90974 жыл бұрын
They didn’t get the Visigoths thou. Rip Ostrogoths
@iuliusconstantcornelio20184 жыл бұрын
The Battle of Adrianople is way to overrated....
@KingofEuropa074 жыл бұрын
What a pathetic display of coping
@ricky-sanchez4 жыл бұрын
The goths sacked eastern Rome countless times. Especially during the crusades.
@TheWeirdMusic3 жыл бұрын
I am so frickin' thankful for your videos! I always have one playing in the background. And, Mr. Narrator, your voice is AMAZING!
@TheJaviferrol4 жыл бұрын
Romans: Theres can surely be no one worse than these bloodthirsty Goths Attila: Hello
@acatsquad2434 жыл бұрын
Timur: Bonjour
@shorewall4 жыл бұрын
All asians. :D
@ninjaa69522 жыл бұрын
@@shorewall weird cause Asians mostly lost and got conquered by Europeans.
@Sina.575 Жыл бұрын
@@shorewallthe G oths were Also originally from central Asia And northern Persia lmao.
@elhombredeoro9554 жыл бұрын
Just when I needed a video on the battle of Adrianople, you came up with one.
@arami1874 жыл бұрын
"Grrrr!"- Emperor Valentinian's Last Words, Probably. Better than Czar Nicholas II's last words- "WHAT?!"
@JimH-vk8ft4 жыл бұрын
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?
@KingsandGenerals4 жыл бұрын
We call ourselves Evaheads, ok?
@JimH-vk8ft4 жыл бұрын
Kings and Generals Very much noted, loved the video guys, you’re all awesome!
@ariadneschild84603 жыл бұрын
😆😅🤣
@keaganwilliams964 жыл бұрын
I fricken love Kings and Generals , This is my adult life “cartoons on Saturday “
@rafaelcarvalho39284 жыл бұрын
You make me feel so happy. Thank you kings and generals very much!
@CivilWarWeekByWeek4 жыл бұрын
You are proof that all history books should have pictures and maps
@daliberista43444 жыл бұрын
It seems surreal seeing how an unengaged flank would just watch then flee a goddamn battle. Idiocy in its highest.
@enesbilgin9374 жыл бұрын
fear is a strong emotion
@daliberista43444 жыл бұрын
@@enesbilgin937 or incompetence as it happened during rome's devastating defeats: this, manzikert and dyrrachium
@diegokaqui604 жыл бұрын
if they just attacked the line from the back....the goths would have lost.
@jtgd4 жыл бұрын
“Our men is fleeing the field of battle! This is a shameful display”
@Psychol-Snooper4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. The geniuses all die in battle. That's how that works!
@happycompy4 жыл бұрын
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!
@MalayArcher4 жыл бұрын
:)
@flagearvideo4 жыл бұрын
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...
@AlexAckerl4 жыл бұрын
This one hurts so much.
@brokenbridge63164 жыл бұрын
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.
@lshe974 жыл бұрын
6:52 Damn there were even commies back in Roman times, smh my head these people never learn
@truthissacred4 жыл бұрын
Comes
@milovantolic88214 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@timhare98674 жыл бұрын
It’s actually the Latin version of ‘Count’. It meant commander of the regions mobile field troops.
@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors4 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS CHANNEL !!!!
@AngryHistorian874 жыл бұрын
"The beginning of the nightmarish clashes with the Goths" Battle of Abritus: Am I a joke to you?
@alexandrejosedacostaneto3814 жыл бұрын
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
@92mariotta4 жыл бұрын
The best military history channel. Ever
@ShaoJianDuoGuai4 жыл бұрын
Roman Empire: Yes! Stop everything, we watch this now! Roman Defeat: It can wait...
@markkuzmenkov23664 жыл бұрын
great video.thank you so much for your great content.this is my favorite history channel on youtube
@tamerlane39314 жыл бұрын
the wisigoths deserve their own series ....from adrianople to spain , through rome and southern france it will make a good series
@SuperJuicyAncap4 жыл бұрын
Really love this channel, keep it up you guys!
@dre99264 жыл бұрын
Ah Adrianople: The battle where 2/3 of a WHOLE ENTIRE ARMY caught the fade, and an Emperor's body wasn't even found
@HustlerMitch3 жыл бұрын
Valens! What a guy. Seeing most of his army run and sees his elite units fighting and dying for him. What does he do? He joins them.
@danielchequer58424 жыл бұрын
"Don't they know... It's the end of the world... It ended when you said gooodbyeee"
@jonathanflores99914 жыл бұрын
Fellow Dovah legionnaire
@nathanpangilinan43973 жыл бұрын
A man of culture and taste, I see.
@cengizsogutlu4 жыл бұрын
Thanks from videon im from Edirne/Adrianople Turkey
@ritaDas-xl4kz4 жыл бұрын
Just waiting for another ceaser's civil war video,and when is the next napoleonic wars video coming??
@jesuschrist95132 жыл бұрын
I always imagined Valentinians death as the rage scene from Downfall immediately followed by the stroke scene from Death of Stalin
@ritaDas-xl4kz4 жыл бұрын
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...!!
@dovahkiin33794 жыл бұрын
Actually those gothic units didn't have air conditioning atop The hill they were in the same shoes
@ritaDas-xl4kz4 жыл бұрын
@@dovahkiin3379 I know but there was a bit of greenery there and but the romans were standing on complete open ground.
@dovahkiin33794 жыл бұрын
@@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-xl4kz4 жыл бұрын
@@dovahkiin3379 Thats true
@Xfire2094 жыл бұрын
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.
@alpajino54004 жыл бұрын
My hometown is Adrianople :d so many years have past ...
@Fordo0074 жыл бұрын
Even knowing how this ends... I still watch hoping Valens waits for Gratian...
@ramyarkohzadi33364 жыл бұрын
You really need to make a series about second punic wars...I believe your channel will be more popular than ever to do so
@usingThaForce4 жыл бұрын
This is real Entertainment for real intellectuals
@annieroseloquinario20444 жыл бұрын
Caesar will roll to his grave, I guess.
@22vx4 жыл бұрын
Love it! Thanks guys!
@nadimsarieddine98354 жыл бұрын
Valentinian I: Ragequits Valentinian I has left the game
@AYVYN Жыл бұрын
When your recruits get behind your senior soldiers, you can’t even do a feigned retreat. This was mayhem. Thanks for another great video.
@reginaldbauer52434 жыл бұрын
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.
@reginaldbauer52433 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@xarmanhsh29813 жыл бұрын
anybody else really likes the content and wish they could go back in time as a spectral spectator that understands the languages
@rawjawbone4 жыл бұрын
2:26 Dude literally died mad.
@christophermarek77044 жыл бұрын
What specific musical tracks did you use for this awesome video?
@derludwigwietondon35594 жыл бұрын
The Battle in teuteburg forrest had an permanent Impact in roman conquest
@thepuppelpuppel41754 жыл бұрын
The conquered Brtitain and Mesopatamia after.
@tropicblue34574 жыл бұрын
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.
@starfox3004 жыл бұрын
@@tropicblue3457 People always spout this classic meme
@_Ocariao4 жыл бұрын
Best hour of sunday! You are the best, KaG
@Pantsinabucket4 жыл бұрын
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.
@kevinhurley69193 жыл бұрын
Have you ever thought about helping to find an ancient battle site like the exact location of this battle? I think it would be an awesome adventure
@paprskomet2 жыл бұрын
Of corse that scholarship did try to find exact location.
@apostolispouliakis74014 жыл бұрын
This is definitely one of the big oofs in Roman history
@cesarerinaldi67504 жыл бұрын
KnG Will you do a video on the last 3 heroes of the western roman empire: Stilicho, Aetius and Majorian?
@Τζει-ε5δ4 жыл бұрын
*The Goths send their regards*
@benborja32004 жыл бұрын
Mudda....
@stygian80494 жыл бұрын
Great work as always! By the way, will you guys make series about Italian wars?
@KingsandGenerals4 жыл бұрын
Yep, the scripts are being researched as we speak!
@stepanpytlik40214 жыл бұрын
I would like to say some Dovahhatty line but I can't remember any at the moment. Good video btw.
@fatalshore50684 жыл бұрын
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!
@Stynkyappel4 жыл бұрын
"It all goes downhill from here..."
@yetzchaqeaton6888 Жыл бұрын
9:18 This conflict happened in 376AD... NOT 378AD...
@TLOK19184 жыл бұрын
"...After the catastrophe, the wounded Valens was taken by a survivor to a nearby farmhouse, where he was placed to recover from his wounds, while outside, the Goths continued to burn everything in sight, including the farmhouse, unaware of who it was that lay inside. The Eastern emperor was dead, most of his legions destroyed, and a gigantic Gothic horde now raided the Empire with no army to stop them. They would _never_ leave. With the many invading Goths, the seeds of future despair came, among them a young child. Out of all barbarians that brought misery to the pages of history, few matched the deeds of the future king of the Visigoths. Few indeed, but not none. In fact, the greatest threat the Empire would ever face was not G*rmanic, nor like anything they had ever faced before. They were _beyond_ evil. They were the Scourge of God. They were the Huns. And they were here." -Man in purple armor, circa 2020, slightly edited.
@shaafalikhan37044 жыл бұрын
Why censor Germanic?
@TLOK19184 жыл бұрын
@@shaafalikhan3704 Just an inside joke for Unbiased History viewers. Basically everyone who's against Rome's interests are censored. No offense meant.
@shaafalikhan37044 жыл бұрын
@@TLOK1918 none taken, my intent was of curiosity.
@josephclark78144 жыл бұрын
Exceptional production, as always 👏👏👏
@benborja32004 жыл бұрын
Red Wedding/Wildling Story: Roman Edition!
@loupiscanis94494 жыл бұрын
Thank you , K & G .
@sarmatiancougar75564 жыл бұрын
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.
@saltyshanker4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I have noticed that Kings and Generals is becoming increasingly historically inaccurate on most things.
@duxromanorum98613 жыл бұрын
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.
@alexanderfilip1134 жыл бұрын
Anyone know what the song at 24:00 is called. I tried to look through the Rome 2 ost, but had no luck.
@simonw12522 жыл бұрын
It must be a personality disorder of mine, or temperament... But I always enjoy Roman defeats than Victories... Always the for the Underdog, always hated bullies of any colour or creed... Always for those who just wish to live their own way
@b3ygghsas Жыл бұрын
The goths were invaders too bro, they ravaged the thracians and illyrians in the balkans. In the ancient world there are no bullies or little Timmy's, everyone is trying to survive and kill each other if necessary to survive
@RureadyStudio4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information you provided.
@castagnos5094 жыл бұрын
When you are playing the tutorial of Atilla total war
@SarxzcraftRblx14934 жыл бұрын
I think you should cover the Battle of Poetovio in 388 AD between Magnus Maximus and Theodosius I
@paprskomet3 жыл бұрын
Very little is known about details of that battle.From that reason it would be precarious to madee entire video on it.Battle of Mursa is much better captured and video could be made about it.
@ruraladventurer18844 жыл бұрын
Love you guys but a portion of your initial claim couldn't be more wrong. The loss at Teutoburg Forest absolutely caused a permanent degradation of Roman power by denying Rome the opportunity to pacify those territories. After Teutoburg, Rome's aggressive efforts to conquer those lands stalled and they fell back to defensive positions behind the Rhine and Danube, never again to push into those lands for anything other than punitive expeditions. For the next 460 years, the descendants of those unconquered tribes wreaked havoc along Rome's borders, soaking up massive amounts of manpower and resources and eventually overran the West entirely.
@starfox3004 жыл бұрын
Truth
@romalardum31034 жыл бұрын
What mods on total war did you guys use to make the Romans look so good?