Cavalry and chariots against infantry

[Robert Vermaat]

I know about the Romans being pressed together unable to use their weapons, but I do not recall them being suffocated, trampled and squeezed by the cavalry.

"Squeezing" is the advanced form of "pressing together".
And typical condition in such situation, is suffocating (due to lack of oxygen).
If cavalry was pressing together, it was also trampling some of them (at least those in frontal ranks). Apart from being trampled by horses, they could also trample each other in that crowd.

So you're actually saying that you don't really know if that happened or not, yet you use this battle as a reference?

Do you have any excerpts from primary sources about those charges at Adrianople?

I do, but I was already asking you to provide us a reference for Adrianople because you so boldly stated that this was a battle in which "Many Romans died because they suffocated after being trampled and squeezed by pressure of Gothic cavalry."(your words). So go ahead and show us who wrote that?

(Advance warning: there is actually no account of this battle that described what happened in detail, so i assume your reference comes from a popular modern account). :whistle: