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The Battle of Chalons: Attila’s Stinging Defeat

By John Walker

In AD 451, Attila the Hun, by then known to terrified Western Christians as the “scourge of God,” crossed the Rhine River in command of a multi-ethnic army. Read more

A modern illustration shows Roman legionnaires on the march. The front ranks typically charged into battle, stopping to hurl their pilum before closing with the enemy using their gladius. In the melee, they used their scutum to knock their opponents off balance.

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Roman Armageddon at Pharsalus

By William E. Welsh

The snow-capped peaks of the Ceraunian Mountains stared down on the sturdy barks hunting for a suitable place to land on the coast of Epirus on January 5, 48 bc. Read more

Thick black smoke fills the sky as Rome burns in this allegorical 19th century painting depicting the city’s fall. LEFT: A Roman coin bears the image of Emperor Honorius.

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The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD

By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck

The tattered banners of Hercules fluttered in the howling wind along the Frigidus River in western Italy, hard athwart the Adriatic Sea, on the afternoon of September 6, 394 ad. Read more

The Battle of Chalons: Attila’s Stinging Defeat

Roman Armageddon at Pharsalus

The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD

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