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In 395 the Goths raided Greece but they were trapped between the armies of ERE in Thrace and the armies of WRE under Stilicho in Illyricum...
Stilicho was ready to crush the Visigoths but he was ordered by Arcadius to return to WRE while ERE troops were ordered not to harm the Visigoths...Stilicho complied with the ordes and withdrew his forces allowing Visigoths to escape... (Arcadius was influenced by Rufinus who had struck a secret deal with Alaric in order to protect his estates in Thrace and Thessaly...)
WI Stilicho disobeyed the orders or pretended that they arrived too late and had annihilated the Visigoths then? How is that altering History?
If the Visigoths are annihilated does the WRE gains some years more?
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