What Happened to the Last Roman Soldiers After the Fall of Rome?

In 476, the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic barbarian leader who commanded mercenary troops and federated peoples within the Roman army itself. This date is symbolically considered the end of the Western Roman Empire. But what happened to the Roman soldiers after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? That is what we will explore in this video.