Hervey 11 - On His Majesty's Service
“In particular he penned one arresting admonition: ‘None who know the history of these parts, neither Turk nor Russian, can approach Adrianople without wariness, respecting what happened here fifteen hundred years ago.’Hervey did know. The events of 9 August 378, by the old Julian calendar, had stood in his mind since the schoolroom at Shrewsbury: the Emperor Flavius Julius Valens, whom some called ‘Ultimus Romanorum’, had met his death at the head of an army defending the Eastern Empire from th...e invading Goths. And one of the reasons he held the events in his mind (and much to his satisfaction, for Agar himself did not know this) was that Valens had been raised on his father Gratian’s estate near where he himself was raised, on the downs of Wiltshire. But in that battle – Hadrianopolis – there had been a most shameful affair, etched deep in his mind since first he had been made to translate the page of the Historiae in the classical remove: Valens had been deserted by his cavalry.MoreLess
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