Edward Gibbon, an English historian, published The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. This is Chapter 36 of that work. He follows Rome from the prosperous age of Trajan and the Antonines, around the year 100, through the fall of the West and on to the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453.

Chapter 36 takes up sack of Rome by Genseric, King of the Vandals—His naval depredations—Succession of the last emperors of the West, Maximus, Avitus, Majorian, Severus, Anthemius, Olybrius, Glycerius, Nepos, Augustulus—Total extinction of the Western Empire—Reign of Odoacer, the first Barbarian King of Italy. The footnotes are not in this reading; what you have is the narrative.