June 20, 451 AD · Gaul Theater
June 20, 451 AD
As Attila's Huns and their subject peoples ravaged Gaul, the Roman general Aetius assembled a grand coalition of Romans, Visigoths, Franks, and other peoples to stop them. The two enormous hosts met somewhere near Châlons in a daylong battle of appalling slaughter. The Visigothic king Theodoric was killed, but Attila was checked and withdrew to his camp; the next day he retreated from Gaul.
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