Editing Battle of Adrianople (section)

===Strength of Valens' army===
Several modern historians have attempted to estimate the strength of Valens' army.

Warren Treadgold estimates that, by 395, the Army of Thrace had 24,500 soldiers, while the 1st and 2nd Armies in Emperor's Presence had 21,000 each.<ref>Treadgold, Warren, 1995, ''Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081'', Stanford, [[Stanford University Press]].</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2020}} However, all three armies include units either formed (several units of ''Theodosiani'' among them) or redeployed (various legions in Thrace){{citation needed|date=November 2012}} after Adrianople.<ref name="Eastern" /> Moreover, troops were needed to protect Marcianopolis and other threatened cities, so it is unlikely that all three armies fought together.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Some modern historians estimated the real number of Roman troops to be as many as 15,000 men, 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.<ref name=HP181 />