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The Battle of Adrianople was fought in Thrace on July 3, 324, [2] during a Roman civil war, the second to be waged between the two emperors Constantine I and Licinius.Licinius was soundly defeated and his army suffered heavy casualties.
After his defeat at the Battle of Adrianople (324), Licinius and his main army retreated to the city of Byzantium (currently Istanbul, Turkey). He left a strong garrison there and crossed the Bosphorus Strait with most of his troops.
Supposedly outnumbered but fired by their zeal, Constantine's army emerged victorious in the Battle of Adrianople. Licinius fled across the Bosphorus and appointed Martius Martinianus, the commander of his bodyguard, as Caesar, but Constantine next won the Battle of the Hellespont, and finally the Battle of Chrysopolis on 18 September 324. [109]
Licinius's fleet of 350 ships was defeated by Constantine's fleet in 323. Then in 324, Constantine, tempted by the "advanced age and unpopular vices" [7] [5] of his colleague, again declared war against him and having defeated his army of 165,000 men [15] at the Battle of Adrianople (3 July 324), succeeded in shutting him up within the walls of ...
The lack of reserves for the army worsened the recruitment crisis. Despite the losses, the Battle of Adrianople did not mark the end of the Roman Empire because the imperial military power was only temporarily crippled. The defeat at Adrianople signified that the barbarians, fighting for or against the Romans, had become powerful adversaries.
The Gothic War of 376–382 was one of several Gothic Wars in Roman history in which the Goths fought against the Roman Empire.This particular conflict included the catastrophic Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople, which is commonly seen as a cause of the decline of the Western Roman Empire, although its significance is widely debated.
Monday marks 80 years since the Battle of the Bulge, when the Nazi army made its last offensive push of World War II.. The battle was one of the costliest of the war, with the U.S. Army suffering ...
The Battle of Adrianople (378 CE), in which Gothic rebels defeated the Eastern Roman Empire, was the main battle of the Gothic War (376–382). Battle of Adrianople may also refer to: Battle of Adrianople (324) , a battle in which Constantine the Great defeated Licinius in a Roman civil war