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The battle of Chalons: in confronting the Huns under Attila, the man known as "the last Roman" led the remnant forces of Western civilization against the rampaging barbarian horde.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
The citizens of Orleans lay prostrate in the streets, praying for a miracle. Men, women, and children wept and begged the God of nations to deliver them from the greatest calamity young Christendom had yet witnessed. In the distance, the terrifying sounds of siege warfare--the incessant crash of stones and other missiles launched by catapults, the thump of rams testing the walls and gates of the city, and the howling of an enemy host that would show neither restraint nor clemency--warned of imminent catastrophe. Inside the walls of Orleans, thousands of peace-loving citizens prepared for the worst. Outside the walls, on the verge of forcing a major breach in the city's ...
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