Restorer of Rome ⚔️ Battles of Aurelian (ALL PARTS)

🚩 I'm very pleased to have worked with Dr. Byron Waldron on this series. His research and incredible insight into the Crisis of the Third Century made this video possible. The Crisis of the Third Century was one of the darkest periods in Roman history. By 270 AD the empire had practically disintegrated, but emperor Aurelian managed to string an unprecedented series of military victories to restore the Roman Empire.

📝 Research and Writing by Dr. Byron Waldron

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎼 Music, courtesy of EpidemicSound

📝 Sources:

Andrade, N. J. 2018: Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra, New York.

De Blois, L. 2018: Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD: The Impact of War, London.

Potter, D. S. 2014: The Roman Empire at Bay AD 180-395, 2nd ed., Oxford & New York.

Stoneman, R. 1992: Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia’s Revolt against Rome, Ann Arbor.

Watson, A. 1999: Aurelian and the Third Century, London & New York.

#rome #aurelian #zenobia

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[bogdan]

You are doing this man justice. Were it not for him, the Roman Empire would have collapsed a lot earlier. When I was in school, literally the only lesson where he was mentioned was the one about the Roman retreat from Dacia.

[historyexplained]

Man this Aurelian guy is pretty cool. I hope he stays around for a while

[BoyangSun]

Aurelian is now my favorite emperor. EVERYTHING was not going in his favor but he methodically dealt with them one by one. Such a shame he died in such unceremonious way. If he had lived maybe the west would have lasted much longer.

[quarternions]

Julius Caesar : assassinated while planning a campaign against Parthia

Aurelian : assassinated while planning a campaign against the Sassanids

*I'm beginning to see a pattern here that I'm not so sure I like*

[FlashPointHx]

Fantastic presentation as always - Aurelian was a man who knew how to fight. Love your map of Antioch as well. Btw hope you dad is doing better

[TomOostenrijk]

Some of these channels are so great. HistoryMarche, Epic History, Kings and Generals. You guys give such good and educative content in a storm of mundane content! I appreciate you HM!

[TheGhostbuster]

An hour and 13 minutes of HistoryMarche? Hell fucking yes!

[redeme]

Bruh I hate how Aurelian literally revived the roman empire, gave his fellows more land and wealth than they could imagine and kept crushing armies after armies but all it took to make his brethens turn on him was a single fake letter.

[yaboyed]

This is truly worthy of the restorer. Could you do a vid on Emperor Gallienus and his tragic reign 😔😔😔

[TheJaviferrol]

Most underrated Roman Emperor ever. Some people tend to forget there´s Rome long past the Julio-Claudians

[danyalahmad]

This man seemingly appeared from Heaven, donned the coolest golden helmet and mask I've ever seen, and then single-handedly saved the entire world.
In under five years.
What a TITAN.

[antarescitizen]

I knew the story of Aurelian's secretary. But damn, everytime it is reminded to me I just feel disgusted and disappointed by how one corrupted man have destroyed Rome's chance for longer survival. One man, ONE MAN, terrified by the consequences of his actions, singlehandedly shortened the life of a gigantic empire.

[TheRealOAFs]

Imagine after winning all these battles, getting so close to being finally able to relax and enjoy it all
suddenly find yourself getting stabbed to death by your own soldiers out of nowhere.

Had to have been horrible as Aurelian had no idea why they did this.

[vgamedude]

Its so refreshing seeing someone who deals in intelligent calculated mercy instead of blind fear.

[JawsOfHistory]

I think this documentary really does nail how incredibly different the Roman military had become in this era. Would a general of his talent always have made it to the top of the military or was he just the perfect man at the most inopportune moment to shine. It's hard to imagine Aurelian commanding tens of thousands of heavy infantry in the Republican era, both due to the conservativism towards commanders and because of how era defining Aurelian's tactics were.

Great video!

[sebastianthurmond]

As Mike Duncan said on The History of Rome podcast, " Just remember, Aurelian is the Sandy Kofax of Roman Emperors." He's always been my favorite Emperor, followed closely by Trajan.

[hnhaha]

Learned about this most glorious man through DovaHatty, and got into more detail here. Truly a force of order against chaos! Roma Victrix!

[majorianus]

Aurelian, without a single doubt the strongest, most powerful, and most able man in the entire Earth in his time. He is nothing less than equal of Julius Caesar, Augustus, or Alexander the great.

[Mlenia]

Narrator: "Best cavalry ever that existed in the wo.."

Aurelian: *proceeds to destroy them with one simple trick*

Narrator: 😐

Aurelian: :D