Aetius

Stilicho had detachments of Huns in the armies which fought against Alaric.

The greatest Roman soldier after Stilicho, and like Stilicho a barbarian parentage, Aetius, who was to be their most formidable antagonist, had been a hostage and a messmate in their camps, and he had followed a common practice of the time when he invited the Huns to the frontiers of Italy to support a candidate for the imperial dignity.

About 433 Attila, the son of Manzuk, like Charles the Great, equally famous in history and legend, became their king.

Attila was the exact prototype and forerunner of the Turkish chiefs of the house of Othman.

End of Section 1 Section 2 of The Beginning of the Middle Ages by Richard William Church This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter 1 Teutonic Settlements in the West Fall of the Empire in the West 406-476 Part 2 He passed through Germany into Gaul, sweeping along with him in his course as confederates or subjects a mixed multitude of many races and visiting with impartial havoc and slaughter the Roman cities and the Gothic settlements.

Romans and Goths forgot their own quarrels in their panic and distress.

The ablest of Roman generals, Aetius, and the most powerful of the Gothic kings, Theodoric of Toulouse, joined their forces and were only just in time to save Orléans and prevent the host of Huns from bursting the barrier of the Loire, June 23, 451.

Attila retired and waited for them in the plains of Chalon, plains made by nature and used in our own days for the encampment of great armies.

Stilicho had detachments of Huns in the armies which fought against Alaric.

The greatest Roman soldier after Stilicho, and like Stilicho a barbarian parentage, Aetius, who was to be their most formidable antagonist, had been a hostage and a messmate in their camps, and he had followed a common practice of the time when he invited the Huns to the frontiers of Italy to support a candidate for the imperial dignity.

About 433, Attila, the son of Manzuk, like Charles the Great, equally famous in history and legend, became their king.

Attila was the exact prototype and forerunner of the Turkish chiefs of the house of Othman.

He passed through Germany into Gaul, sweeping along with him in his course as confederates or subjects a mixed multitude of many races, and visiting with impartial havoc and slaughter the Roman cities and the Gothic settlements.

Romans and Goths forgot their own quarrels in their panic and distress.

The ablest of Roman generals, Aetius, and the most powerful of the Gothic kings, Theodoric of Toulouse, joined their forces and were only just in time to save Orléans and prevent the host of Huns from bursting the barrier of the Loire, June 23rd, 451.

Attila retired and waited for them in the plains of Chalon, plains made by nature and used in our own days for the encampment of great armies.

Stilicho had detachments of Huns in the armies which fought against Alaric.

The greatest Roman soldier after Stilicho, and like Stilicho of barbarian parentage, Aetius, who was to be their most formidable antagonist, had been a hostage and a messmate in their camps, and he had followed a common practice of the time when he invited the Huns to the frontiers of Italy to support a candidate for the imperial dignity.

About 433, Attila, the son of Manzuk, like Charles the Great, equally famous in history and legend, became their king.

Attila was the exact prototype and forerunner of the Turkish chiefs of the house of Othman.

End of Section 1 Section 2 of The Beginning of the Middle Ages by Richard William Church This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter 1 Teutonic Settlements in the West Fall of the Empire in the West 406-476 Part 2 He passed through Germany into Gaul, sweeping along with him in his course as confederates or subjects a mixed multitude of many races and visiting with impartial havoc and slaughter the Roman cities and the Gothic settlements.

Romans and Goths forgot their own quarrels in their panic and distress.

The ablest of Roman generals, Aetius, and the most powerful of the Gothic kings, Theodoric of Toulouse, joined their forces and were only just in time to save Orléans and prevent the host of Huns from bursting the barrier of the Loire, June 23, 451.

Attila retired and waited for them in the plains of Chalon, plains made by nature and used in our own days for the encampment of great armies.

In dire circumstances, we have seen great leaders that had a knack for spotting talent.

Like we talked about Gallienus, Aurelian, Aetius, Majorian, all these guys, right? And I think Heraclius had that knack as well.

And then there's the boy heir, Heraclius Constantine, a teenager.

Maybe he's like 14 years old at this point.

Thus foreign calamities have were augmented by domestic feuds, so that the whole country was entirely destitute of provisions, save such as could be procured in the chase.

Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Aetius, a powerful Roman citizen, address him as follows, to Aetius, now consul for the third time the groans of the britons and again a little further thus the barbarians drive us to the sea the sea throws us back on the barbarians thus two modes of death await us we are either slain or drowned the romans however could not assist them and in the meantime the discomfited people wandering in the woods began to feel the effects of a severe famine which compelled many of them without delay to yield themselves up to their cruel persecutors to obtain subsistence.

Others of them, however, lying hid in mountains, caves, and woods, continually sallied out from thence to renew the war.

And then it was for the first time that they overthrew their enemies, who had for so many years been living in their country.

The army which Attila saw was an army of 300,000 Romans and Visigoths.

It was led by a Roman general named Aetius and the Visigoth king, Theodoric.

The Visigoths, after the death of Alaric, had settled in parts of Gaul, and their king had now agreed to join the Romans against the common enemy, the terrible Huns.

So the great army of the Romans and Visigoths marched up and attacked the Huns at Chelons.

At first the Huns seemed to be winning.

They drove back the Romans and Visigoths from the field, and in the fight Theodoric was killed.

Aetius now began to fear that he would be beaten.

But just at that moment...

The army which Attila saw was an army of three hundred thousand Romans and Visigoths.

It was led by a Roman general named Aetius and the Visigoth king Theodoric.

The Visigoths, after the death of Alaric, had settled in parts of Gaul, and their king had now agreed to join the Romans against the common enemy, the terrible Huns.

So the great army of the Romans and Visigoths marched up and attacked the Huns at Chalons.

At first, the Huns seemed to be winning.

They drove back the Romans and Visigoths from the field, and in the fight, Theodoric was killed.

Aetius now began to fear that he would be beaten, but just at that moment, Thorismund, the son of Theodoric, made another charge against the Huns.

He had taken command of the Visigoths when his father was killed, and now he led them on to fight.

Stilicho had detachments of Huns in the armies which fought against Alaric.

The greatest Roman soldier after Stilicho, and like Stilicho of barbarian parentage, Aetius, who was to be their most formidable antagonist, had been a hostage and a messmate in their camps, and he had followed a common practice of the time when he invited the Huns to the frontiers of Italy to support a candidate for the imperial dignity.

About 433, Attila, the son of Manzuk, like Charles the Great, equally famous in history and legend, became their king.

Attila was the exact prototype and forerunner of the Turkish chiefs of the house of Othman.

End of Section 1 Section 2 of The Beginning of the Middle Ages by Richard William Church This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter 1 Teutonic Settlements in the West Fall of the Empire in the West 406-476 Part 2 He passed through Germany into Gaul, sweeping along with him in his course as confederates or subjects a mixed multitude of many races and visiting with impartial havoc and slaughter the Roman cities and the Gothic settlements.

Romans and Goths forgot their own quarrels in their panic and distress.

The ablest of Roman generals, Aetius, and the most powerful of the Gothic kings, Theodoric of Toulouse, joined their forces and were only just in time to save Orléans and prevent the host of Huns from bursting the barrier of the Loire, June 23, 451.

Attila retired and waited for them in the plains of Chalon, plains made by nature and used in our own days for the encampment of great armies.