Battle of Châlons

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle during the Barbarian wars. Result: Defeat and retreat of the Huns.

In the summer of 451, Attila led the Huns and their subject peoples across the Rhine into Gaul. By this time, the Roman army was in sorry shape, consisting of little more than barbarian mercenaries in the personal service of Aetius, the supreme Roman generalissimo. The other powers in Western Europe, such as the Visigoths in Aquitania and the Franks in the Rhineland, technically Roman allies, were likely to use any further weakening of Roman...

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