What We Learned From… The Battle of Adrianople
In 378 Goth cavalry stormed a Roman force at Adrianople (present-day Edirne, Turkey). According to 4th century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Goths inflicted “enormous losses” on the legionaries, moving St. Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, to bemoan “the end of all humanity.”
Two years earlier the Goths—loosely allied Germanic tribes facing pressure from the
