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Showdown in Champagne

In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders.

Herbert Bushman
Herbert Bushman
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The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: artwork showing two groups of horseman with lances in combat.
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, as depicted in the Chronica Hungarorum.
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