Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Hadrianople (War of the Two Empires).

Fought July 3, 323, between Constantine, Emperor of the West, with 120,000 troops, and Licinius, Emperor of the East, with 165,000. Licinius, by the skilful manœuvring of Constantine, was enticed from his entrenched camp into the open plain, and his raw levies being powerless against the Western veterans, he was totally defeated.[defeated.] It is said that 34,000 perished in the battle.