376 crossing went badly wrong almost immediately.

Roman administrators who were supposed to manage the settlement of the Goths were corrupt and incompetent.

The promised provisions for the refugees did not materialize.

Conditions became desperate.

The result was revolt.

The Gothic revolt that followed culminated in one of the most significant military disasters in Roman history: the Battle of Adrianople in A.D.

378, where the Visigothic forces led by Fritigern decisively defeated the Roman army commanded by Emperor Valens.

Valens himself was killed in the battle — one of only a handful of Roman emperors to die fighting an external enemy in the field.