![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the course of his life he was a hostage, first with Alaric and the Goths, and then with Rugila, King of the Huns. Aetius is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire and his actions helped maintain the integrity of the West in the declining years of the Empire. Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke? While Attila is a household name, his nemesis remains relatively obscure. He was brought to battle on the Cataluanian Plain and defeated by a coalition hastily assembled and led by Aetius. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his empire from the Eurasian steppe to the Atlantic. In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. ![]()
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