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Rome\'s worst military defeat
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08-20-2004, 05:57 AM
That is what I was getting at without actually saying it, a bad habit of mine. The goths needed a strong leader and got that in Aleric, a spawn of the Roman legionaire system as a result of the integration of the Goths. I believe that Aleric witnessed massive Gothic deaths as they were just thrown into a battlefield as if they were nothing causing the hatred in Aleric which eventually led to his march on Rome as Rome's former enemies in Italy joined the Goths. The Romans took the Goths too lightly even after the Adrianople disaster and it bit them in the rear. <p>THERE ARE NO STUPID PEOPLE, ONLY PEOPLE STUPID ENOUGH TO NOT KNOW WHEN THEY'VE MADE A MISTAKE</p><i></i>
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Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-12-2004, 01:54 AM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-12-2004, 11:15 AM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-12-2004, 12:01 PM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-12-2004, 03:51 PM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Uwe Bahr - 07-13-2004, 03:46 AM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-13-2004, 06:30 AM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-13-2004, 10:26 AM
Re: Rome\'s worst military defeat - by Anonymous - 07-13-2004, 12:44 PM
said this before - by Goffredo - 07-13-2004, 08:22 PM
A touch OT - by Anonymous - 07-14-2004, 08:57 AM
Glory or defeat - by TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 07-14-2004, 12:34 PM
Manzikert Roman - by Anonymous - 07-14-2004, 01:49 PM
Re: Manzikert Roman - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 07-14-2004, 04:31 PM
Re: Manzikert Roman - by drsrob - 07-21-2004, 10:26 AM
exactly - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 07-21-2004, 04:14 PM
Re: exactly - by taira1180 - 08-18-2004, 08:49 AM
Worst military defeat - by Theodosius the Great - 08-19-2004, 05:26 AM
Re: Worst military defeat - by Robert Vermaat - 08-19-2004, 12:56 PM
Re: Worst military defeat - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 08-20-2004, 05:57 AM
Re: Worst military defeat - by Robert Vermaat - 08-20-2004, 01:02 PM
Assimilation - by Theodosius the Great - 08-20-2004, 10:55 PM
Re: Assimilation - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 08-21-2004, 12:59 AM
Assimilation - by Theodosius the Great - 08-21-2004, 01:29 AM
Re: Assimilation - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 08-21-2004, 02:29 AM
Re: Assimilation - by Robert Vermaat - 08-22-2004, 05:28 AM
Re: Assimilation - by Theodosius the Great - 08-22-2004, 06:48 AM
Re: Assimilation - by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - 08-22-2004, 07:41 PM
Cannae - by Anonymous - 09-02-2004, 07:05 PM

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