Ancient Rome · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Adrianople (378)
On the Ancient Rome map as “Adrianople”
9 Aug 378 — The Gothic refugees Rome admitted, then starved and cheated, destroy the eastern field army. Emperor Valens dies unfound; two-thirds of his men die with him.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Adrianople and the sack of Rome (chapter 10 of Ancient Rome)
- Atlas
- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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