Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 104: Heraclius (Part 4 - The Gamble)

DEUS ADIUTA ROMANIS. May God help the Romans. Because everything else had already been tried. The church gold is melted. The coins are struck. The army is waiting in Bithynia. And somewhere in the palace of Constantinople, a man who has lost almost everything has spent a long dark winter reading a dead emperor's manual. Now it is time to find out if any of it works. Heraclius is the first emperor in more than two centuries that will lead an army into the field, and not any army, this is the LAST ROMAN ARMY, and it looked like nothing Rome had ever put in the field before. Almost entirely cavalry. Twenty thousand exceptionally well trained men. And they faced four fully staffed, battled hardened Persian field armies led by four extraordinary generals. A hundred and sixty thousand Persians against twenty thousand Romans. And if the Romans lost one battle, just one, they wouldn't just lose, ROME WOULD DIE. Join us for episode 104, THE GAMBLE, where the Emperor will ride out from Constantinople, and he will not return, until he wins, or he dies.