Battle of Adrianople


 * Regarded as the collapse of the Roman Empire
 * Emperor Valens killed fighting the Goths
 * Incorrectly told that the enemy had only 10000 men and chose not to wait for reinforcements of Gratian before marching to their wagon circle
 * Afterward, the forces of Fritigern ravaged Thrace for four years
 * Ends a work by Ammianus Marcellinus that records how Valens was resting in a building when Gothic troops burned it out of boredom
 * The Iberian Bacurius launched an unauthorized cavalry attack to begin this battle
 * Rebuffed by the return of Roman foraging cavalry