Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, 451 (ALL PARTS) ⚔️ The man who defeated Attila the Hun DOCUMENTARY
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- 🚩 The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, (AD 451), battle fought between the Huns under Attila and a mixed Roman and Visigoth force under Aetius and Theodoric I; checked the Hunnic advance in Europe. The battle, long-remembered for its ferocity, resulted in Attila’s defeat, though the casualty figures in traditional accounts are probably exaggerated. The Huns’ defeat prevented the widespread destruction and spoliation of Gaul, but it is unlikely that Attila’s horde could have made any deep impression upon the Latin and urban character of the country.
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
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#rome #attila #history
🚩 I combined all parts of our "Battle of the Catalaunian Plains" mini-series for easier viewing. This video was chosen by my Patrons. Thank you so much for your likes and comments ❤. If you enjoy my videos please consider subscribing.
🚩 The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, (AD 451), battle fought between the Huns under Attila and a mixed Roman and Visigoth force under Aetius and Theodoric I; checked the Hunnic advance in Europe. The battle, long-remembered for its ferocity, resulted in Attila’s defeat, though the casualty figures in traditional accounts are probably exaggerated. The Huns’ defeat prevented the widespread destruction and spoliation of Gaul, but it is unlikely that Attila’s horde could have made any deep impression upon the Latin and urban character of the country.
Great video guys
Great compilation video.
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When will be last part about hanibal
' Solving 9-11 By Christopher Bollyn . ' . UA-cam .
This dudes voice was MADE for epic historical voiceovers. He better be being recruited by videogame studios for narration roles. Freaking epic and gets me pumped!
Agreed although this episode has strong auto-tune that is distracting. I haven't noticed it on their other videos.
A British accent is the best narration voice
@@ironocy496 how can you tell its autotune ?
Think it's an AI voice
I think it's nasally and annoying
The Catalunian Plains' battle was so epic, it served as an important inspiration for Tolkien when he wrote LOTR. In fact, King Theoden's story is heavily based on Theodoric I
Absolutely true. In fact the Rohirrim is based on the Visigothic heavy cavalry. Interesting also to note the significantly more "Germanic" names for the characters from Gondor.
@@ghotonkaka the Rohirric names are based on Anglo-Saxon , Tolkien's speciality subject. The Dwarves ,Men of Dale and Gandalf have names of Norse origin while the Men of Gondor have Elvish based names, hence they are variations of Finnish and Welsh
@@ghotonkaka
Source?
Because last time I checked Rohirrim were based on ancient Incan cuirassiers [sarcasm].
Why focus on fantasy when reality is so much richer and deeper?Fantasy is a shadow. Reality is ... the real deal. I have a way with words.
@@SantomPh dwarves are based on semitic peoples
Seeing the empire like this is heartbreaking
Theres an old roman saying that says you reap what you sow
Augustus was crying from the afterlife I bet
Devasting actually.
@@smokeyhoodoo Which is Biblical actually.
Rome part 2 will fall soon too
Epic story!! Attila the Hun goes toe to toe with his old friend - two men with fierce military prowess. Nicely done my friend! Anything to do with this man is awesome - even more so that you brought this clash to life!
Cant wait for the byzantine series to continue with Justinians plague
Hey hey hey, hey! You get back to making that Queen Isabella video young man! No HistoryMarche until you've finished the series 😅
@@timmcclymont3527 hahaha
@@FlashPointHx Love you ❤️
@@FlashPointHx Huge fan of your work. My main studies and work are in engineering, mostly design of structures, earth structures and hydrological systems. My first love was history, for we get the knowledge of past generations and the ability to avoid the same pitfalls. But your videos on Early Muslism conquest and then the subsequent Reconquesta are my favorite on UA-cam. Question, have you ever read "The Walking Drum" by Lious Lamar? Historical fiction of epic proportion, in the year 1195... I love that time in history, all time favorite personally, the golden age of Islam, that they held the torch of civilization for hundreds of years, moving humanity forwards in science, philosophy, poetry, construction, medical practices... crazy how different groups hold that torch at certain times in history.
"Atila, that boar would have killed me had you not intervened."
"Pity that none will ever learn of your loyalty, Archers Attack!"
Pity, not everyone who reads this comment will know what it means or where it comes from.
Sooooo............didn't Attila the Hun meet the Pope?
Sometimes... I miss it.
@@ordinaryrat We all know that.
I know Theodocious II was a minor player in this video, but you should have mentioned HOW he got the walls repaired so fast, because that story shows how clever a man he was. He leveraged the rivalries between the fans of the red, white, green, and blue chariot racing teams to get them to rebuild the walls in record time and pay for almost all of it from their own pockets!
I think the walls were repaired a weeks or months after it’s construction, but Theo was in his childhood.Correct me if I got the dates confused
It was a subordinate
I read that Theodosius II wasn't incompetent, Attila was just a freaking genius who bested Theodosius and basically made him his *bleep*, and Theodosius II was helpless to do anything.
Interesting how his father was a bonobo while Theodosius II turned from a puppet to a reasonably competent ruler. I wouldn't call him great, but he definitely didn't do too bad of a job.
@@daguroswaldson257That's correct. Attila was somewhat of a poor strategist, but typically an excellent tactitian. To him, he was leading his people out of cold of the steppe during the late anitquity ice age and into prosperity.
That dynamically fluid visual history of peoples and cultures flowing across the map during the first two minutes was incredible! ❤🎉
yeah that was actually pretty dope.
They literally did everything different in the 2001 movie "Attila". The inaccuracies are endless.
In contrast to this well made and thoroughly researched video.
Thank you very much for the content.
yeah, a 5th century Roman soldier in segmentata is clearly not an inaccuracy...
Gerard Buttler is a very good actor, the movie is a spectacular tale. Attila's personality was much more complex and the Catalaunum battle had nothing to do with the scientific historian evidence
@@drelek5804 I agree.
lol I love that you're comparing a historical documentary and a Hollywood film.
@@anon_148 By now even the battlefield has not found. Not even a single skeleton or weapon. What we know about the battle are from the controversial chronicons.
i am a visual learner and putting these five episodes together REALLY helps me to put this very complex history together. i saw the individual episodes, but this unified story had a much greater impact on me. An important part of this was seeing the differing time scales play out on the maps. Don't get me started on how wonderful Your maps are! The color changes and movement timed to the narrative bring it to life! Beautiful, educational work brilliantly conceived and executed! Thank You and Your patrons !:-)
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There's no such thing as a visual learner lmao. Being able to learn easily from visuals and images is for Everyone.
Same. It's good stuff. :)
@@work90 i know (female) classmates who concentrate better, when their visual is distracted. most of them love to draw something, and as long as they can do so without beeing disturbed, they always got good grades, but when they werent allowed to draw, and needed to watch the blackboard, their grades were worse.
Aetius was “ rewarded” for his good work, by being murdered by the Emperor. Rome had a bad habit of killing many of their best leaders,
Also it shows what a complicated strategic game Rome was playing at the time that they wanted the Huns defeated, but NOT destroyed completely in case they could be allies later against other groups.
Thus goes the game of power... especially in Rome famous generals were both a boon to the empire and a threat to the Emperor. (Especially weak and uninspiring emperors...)
@@CaspertheSarcasticGhost *coughs* honorius and valentinan III, fuck these guys, how can you be som stupid to kill the only one that tries to hold the empire together, the western empire got three chanses to fix itself: majorian, stillico and aetius. But the one man i hate the most in roman history is ricemer, he was the reson why the western empire collapse. God what incompetent and corrupt men Western empire was
funny story, don’t remember who but someojentold the emperor about what he done to Aetius, he told him you cut off your right hand with your left
funny since Valentinian got assassinated after he assassinated Aetius
They done my boy dirty
In a world where emperors get the throne by ability in war, I would kill good generals too if I were the emperor
"Whether well or not, I do not know. But know that you have cut off your right hand with your left."
-Priscus, in response to Valentinian III boasting he had murdered Aetius "well".
I guess Aetius was well aware of the power of the Visigoths and somehow hoped to keep the menace of Attila around both to keep the Germans hands tied and those of the Romans too.
He tried to make himself not replaceable and survive that way it's triumphs, well aware of the fate that befell on Stilicho, the other great general of the late Rome.
He urged Theodric's son to rush home before his brother could take over in his absence, gaining some measure of trust in exchange, and somehow kept the respect of Attila, who lost the battle but was allowed to retreat.
In the meantime, he bet Valentinian couldn't get rid of him, with the menace of the Visigoths and the Huns roaming freely in the est. Aetius underestimated the stupidity of its own enemies at home, more used to deal with predatory but honourable barbarians then sneaky and selfish Roman politicians.
An old saying tells: "keep your firends close and your enemy closer", but another one tells: "never underestimate the stupidity of human greed" as Belisarius later learned.
allowed to retreat? I read that both forces didn't have the nerve to fight again after the heavy casualties. It was a draw. Both sides retreated, however Attila kept the general strategic upperhand and also succesfully disabled the Visigoths
Perfect. It was better for Ezio to let Attila free.....
@@b0leg23 a draw on enemy soil is more of a loss really
Aetius was a mastermind and handled this situation like nothing else. He knew that the Emperor was unkind and afraid of him, but also dependent, because no other had the Power and Experience to defeat so many vicious enemies. He sent the Visigoths under a pre text back home, so that they would not oppose him for reasons of vengance and acted as if he was unaware of Attilas unharmed retreat. In that case he would secure secure his importance as long, as Attila was alive and still powerfull....wich wasnt long anyways and it turned out how Aetius anticipated it to be, in the end.
THIS WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!!
Reminds me of when I was a young kid, 5,6,7 years of age and I spammed all of these strategy games on my PC.
I loved this video!!! Thanks so much! It's better than 100% of everything that's on TV, Netflix etc.
Hope you have more
Bro?!
Excellent mini-series! I read a lot on this period and on the main actors, but most documents provide a single point of view or focus on a single event (the life of Bonifacius, of Galla Placidia, of Aetius, of Attila, the migration/invasion of Vandals, the changing alliances of Wisigoths, the destruction of the first Burgundian kingdom etc.), but the big picture and the connections between events are here better presented than in any other document I saw or read. Thumbs up!
the battle on the Utus river deserves special mention!!!!!!!!!❤ Please make a video about her and the Eastern Roman Empire and her battles with the Huns
If only bleda's plot to use the iron boar, who lurks near here, and a few feudal age archers to kill his brother Attila worked then things would have been much different
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@@ivanvelemir9677 1. 11. You had the perfect response my friend
This was a true epic story, your narration and visual style are top of the line! If there is one more thing I could advise you guys: Many other channels have started including their research, notes and/or links in the description. You should consider adding them there so people who wish to study this period more, either with contemporary or modern sources, can start at and do so.
ALSO: the starting map with all the changes of the first few decades of the 5th century were incredibly useful - helps visualise the chaos of that period very fast! Thanks for that
Wow, amazing narative! I was presented with the video by chance then I stick all the way to the end! Thank you so much for the video, I have thoroughly enjoyed it! The pre-battle background and the post-battle consequences as well as the character building are great bonus in addition to the battle itself!
La grande classe!!! Resuming such a mess for decades is a real "tour de force", with the beautiful music of the English language you speak, it is a delight!!!
Congratulations from a french man, Burgonde descendant from Savoy!!!
I love the historical information these videos give, but more than that I love the voice of the narrator.
Beautiful, clean and clear voice.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you
Mulțumesc frumos, vouă celor care încercați cu aceste documentare video să ne faceți zilele mai bune! Sunt lucruri neștiute de mine, deoarece istoria este cu mult mai amplă, cu ajutorul vostru înțelegem ce trebuie! Respect!
A brilliant detailed and fantastically awesome video on one of the crucial battles of the late western roman empire. Which shows just how much Rome owned to Soldiers like Aetius and before him Stilicho in keeping its fading and withering carcass of an empire alive for another 50-70 years by finding new and inventive ways to beat back the barbarians at the gates and look how they were rewarded for such service. One of the many reasons for why the western empire collapsed 20 years after Aetius death, case of shooting itself in the foot.
Really Really enjoyed the way you showed population movements during this! Helped so much in visualizing this whole point in history!
Yes!Was waiting on this one.Thank ya’ll for your hard work!
I am mightily impressed by the volume of information in each of these videos. Outstanding work.
Man this is wild, the Romans still held on to whatever they could while being trounced on all sides.
Indeed, but never more so than Hannibal's crushing victory at Cannae, a fascinating tale of arrogance, overconfidence, cunning strategy leading to the Romans being cornered against a river and encircled. Then in one afternoon, 65,000 romans were slaughtered leaving only 2 legions on the Italian peninsula (Rome's home guard). One of the greatest military victories of all time.
This was brilliant!! Thank you so much.
Absolutely marvelous, your depiction and graphics of the geography and battle order are so detailed and clear and beautiful!!
Something I have noticed is that the more downward the spiral of Rome the more it just bribes enemies into not attacking and then they end up attacking anyway stronger than ever thanks to the money.
If they just scorch earthed consistently and made it not worth the trouble of invading every chance they got...
Or they could just stop genociding gentiles, then people wouldn't be defending themselves
Then their own border peoples would have defected. Cant imagibe staying loyal to my empower after he torches my farm .
Fantastic battle well told.. Very important as it changed the course of history. Shame Aetius was assassinated he could have achieved so much more. Great work guys 👏
Politicians always put their ambition against their nations prosperity. Look at Biden and Trudeau.
hhhhh the turc change the story after Atila come Seljuks than Ottoman and they defeats all Christians Kings of the ost Romans byzanta
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@@bencheikhwalid1732John of Austria 1571
A lot of rich detail on the events leading to this huge battle. Very well researched. Thank you for posting this.
whenever you are bored or sick at home these unbelievable videos come along . please don't stop !
I owe my insatiable thirst of history to Age of Empires II. It's exciting to have played the campaigns, and then watching this to know what really happened.
Me too.
"Hey, guys. What if we DIDN'T kill each other, but opposed the enemy?"
"Nah."
Excellent work here and much appreciated the work here.
Excellent videos! It really helps to visualize the precarious state of the roman empire at that time! Keep up the great work History Marche!!!
This is one of my favorite videos on the channel
Good work guys once again. The only thing to notice is that in the transitions your soundtracks got mixed and it wasn't a good experience for the viewer. Nevertheless, your good work over the years makes me trustful of your efforts and your ability to recover from small mistakes like the one aforementioned. Good work and thank you for this video!
This was absolutely excellent. Thank you.
One of my fav of yalls keep improving its awesome!
The quality of these videos is unbelievable.
This narrator has such powerful voice Literally definition is umpth!! Love listening to historymarche 🔥💯🔥
Wonderfully well done! Thank you.
Love your spartan use of the Wilhelm scream in your vids. Very exciting and eye-opening history. Cheers!
Also called "Battle of Chalons", it's the city i'm living in :D ... and some kilometers away there is a place called "Attila's camp"
Ha bon?
Thank you for this excellent work! I've enjoyed myself quite a lot while watching this video, plus I learnt loads. My vision of Aetius has changed forever, he was quite a tough customer!
I would like to find more information about the Bacaudae (we call them Bagaudes) as I am from Northwestern France; I was also intrigued by all these non-Gallo-Roman 'pockets' in the surroundings. And does anyone know what these 'Liticians' were?
Awesome documentary. This battle turned on a knife edge. Amazing.
Loved the video, great work
Great video as always! I especially enjoyed the effort that went into the animations of migratory forces entering and changing the WRE. History Marches On!
Right? I knew in a general sense about the migrations, but to see it represented had me in awe.
Genocidal forces, not migratory. The crimes of the judeo-christian Roman empire are clear
@@smokeyhoodoo there's a discordance in your post. Are you sure we watched the same video?
@@Talancir The video where it says gentiles are restricted from commerce?
@@Talancir I bet the gauls felt thrilled about that, probably made offerings to attila
And then the emperor he’d saved went and assassinated him. But it is a fascinating story, Aetius and Attila, men who spent time as “hostages” in their opposite cultures.
Great video. Thoroughly covered.
Fantastic video, thank you!
The beginning was awesome I’d love to watch a video like that that goes as far back as we can be knowledgeable about the migrations of different people.
To see where groups came from, who they used to be and who they are now would be so interesting. Or just seeing the different huge “barbarian” raids that snake across a continent for a few years and then disperses.
See Goldsworthy's 'How Rome Fell'; we basically don't know much of anything about Germanic / nomadic peoples migration patterns outside of the empire past the frontier. Even the origin of Huns is highly contentious and there isn't consensus among historians.
Great video as always
Your channel is the only channel where I like your videos before I actually watch them because I know before hand that they will become a masterpiece 💯‼️🎯
Time to rewatch this masterpiece!
Big respect for this great produced historical documentry and even with a bunch of the most spoken languages as subtitles. 👍👍 you and your team are really amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My explanation for Aetius not pursuing Attila goes like this: The Roman auxillaries were visibly and utterly exhausted after holding up against Attila's men for so long, the Alans had almost completely routed meanwhile his other visigothic troops on his right were weary and shocked by the death of their king, the only fresh contingent were Thorismund's cavalrymen, so Aetius could not risk his infantry and shattered cavalry in an engagement with Attila, otherwise his own kingdom in Gaul was at risk, furthermore, Thorismund couldn't have besieged the camp with cavalry alone, so had to back down to secure his throne in Toulouse.
so many juicy trivia morsles and so exquisitly presented with visuals being simple yet engaging and verbal details calm and clear... and above all neither 'over powering' the other but complementing each other.. THANK YOU! dam just as i wish school could have hade sabaton back in the day for history class on modern history.. this presentation would been a sodding golden aid for the valiant effort some of my teachers did.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree that the battle on the Catalaunian fields was won by the Romans, three obvious facts point to their victory:
1) The city of Orleans withstood the siege of the Huns, because of which they could not capture it and attack another city, Toulouse.
2) During the actual battle on the Catalaunian fields, the Huns suffered heavy losses, which is why they retreated from Gaul. Thanks to this, Flavius Aetius received booty from the battlefield and it became a symbol of his victory over Attila, Prosper and Gregory of Tours wrote about this.
3) The Roman vassal Merovei became the king of the Franks and not his brother, who was a vassal of the Huns!
The battle in the field went so bad for huns that the second day Attila wanted a pyre prepared for himself because he didn't want to fall alive in Roman hands.
We cant say Romans won clearly. After all, Attila had his ass kissed by the Pope near of Rome less than öne year.
@@huseyinyalcn8676 Your Attila could not even cross the Po River, and all because of the attack of the Byzantine army on Hunnic settlements on the Hungarian plain. Moreover, Attila was afraid of the Pope, who told him how Alaric died!
@@user-kf3dg3ud5m Attila was fear of the Pope😂. What? Roman fanboy. Learn more history before you write this trash comment. Really, Roman Emperor was fear of Attia, so he flet and abandon Rome.
@@htjohn205 Read the ancient texts in which it is written that the Pope told Attila about how Alaric died and it scared him. The Roman emperor remained in Rome, and Flavius Aetius took up defensive positions near the Po River, thereby preventing the Huns from attacking southern Italy. Also, the Hun settlements on the Hungarian plain were attacked by the Byzantine army, on the orders of Emperor Marcian, which forced Attila to retreat from Italy. In honor of this victory over the Huns, the “Triumphal Column” was built in Constantinople in 452, which still stands today!
geez, this is more fascinating than any epic novel. Game of thrones has nothing on this.
Another fantastic video by @historymarche
Thank you for videos!
It's my first time on this channel. But everything is on master level, the animations, map labels, voice acting, story telling. Pure masterclass. 👍
I'm glad you and other channels do/did videos on the Huns and the Magyars raiders, too bad Epic History and Oversimplified channels don't make any video relating to them and they are major popular channels.
They should all do a video on anti-Spanish prejudice and propaganda and lies (BLACK LEGEND) except most of them are guilty of it.
@@scintillam_dei I just looked up the Black Legend and it's tough to learn what happened but not surprising at the same time. And it's true they were out for themselves.
We Hungarians had a choice to either re-create the Hunnic Empire again, (which we could have done easily) or just keep ourselves to ourselves and stick our borders within the Carpathian Basin. We went with option 2 and as a result today we get almost no condemnation from anyone from the Middle East or Africa or America nor East Asia because we refused to partake in Empire building and colonisation and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
@@theuralictribes5689 Slavery isn't wrong. Liberals preach against it while condoning of it under different labels like taking POWs in chains forced to do as told ergo ARE SLAVES. No one whines when Nazis are killed which deprives them of freedom forever, but when Spaniards kill Aztecs who sacrificed humans to devils, and ate human flesh, then it's a crime like no other. Absurd double standards. Liberals are self-righteous, and don't even know what justice is, as I proved in a video where I compared the USAIDS with Saudi Arabia. You want to appease Muslims, but I am not ashamed to say that thanks to God, my people stopped the Ottoman Empire from taking all of Europe. Only dumb liberals bitch about the Spanish Empire, as they eat chocolate the Spanish found, French fries the Spanish made possible, and see a map of the world the Spanish filled in about half of while in a European, non-Muslim Europe the Spanish are largely to thank for. Of course, the Brits and French invited the enemy in. Oh well. Better Muslims than homosexuals.
Most Informative Episode & Excellent Historical coverage of That Period of Time 400-450 AD about Eastern & Western Rome Empires ....always (History Marche )channel introducing Excellent History Videos allot thanks
Digging the epic stepping in intro. Gives it more epicness :P Also gives a more dicriptive backround definetly helps!
Incredible video! Love the details you went into describing the tribes involved in either camp.
Do you plan to do more videos about the succeeding periods? For example: The power struggle between the Franks and the Visigoths, how the Ostrogoths take over Italy etc.?
Eventually
@@HistoryMarche please do pre Islamic battles like basus ,halima's day etc
Aetius had an army that despised him more than the enemy and still won lmao.
Love the content thanks
Man these videos are so good
Quality content, well made 👌
I love the sacks of gold continually being flung to Ruga.
Honoria sending a ring to Atilla which contained a seal of authenticity was a moronic move.
Fantastic video with great detail
Wonderful history lesson! Thank you!
I miss the Hannibal series 💙
Flavius Aetius: *Defeats Attila the Hun, the greatest threat Rome faced since Hannibal, thus saving the Roman Empire*
Valentinian III: "So, anyway, I started stabbing. My wise uncle Honorius would be so proud..." 🥲
Gamma's gonna gamma the alpha, always.
Not a defeat but a draw. Plus attila marched on rome afterwards..
@@aydnmesuttorun8397 I don't really consider it a draw. Aetius likely suffered less casualties and forced Attila to retreat from Gaul
@@aydnmesuttorun8397attila lost and aetius held the field take the L
battle of Catalonian plains is one of the decisive battles in the roman his. infact this was led by a goth general like Stilicho. Flavius Aetius one of the best commanders at that time. also a brilliant tactician. we always appreciate all your hard work for make these combined vids. love from Sri Lankan fan and history addicter. I also learned that LOTR writer and great fantasy genre legend JRR TOLKIEN the battle of pelannor fields was inspired by this battle that said Elizabeth solopova . also king Théoden and his death in this battle influenced by king Theodoric I of goths . brilliant as always.
Superb work. Hats off.
Just finished reading Ross Laidlaw’s book about Aetius and Attila! Great stuff as usual, guys, thanks!
"Cadavera vero innumera, truly countless bodies. Perhaps 300,000 people died in the battle of the Catalonian Fields. Some say the ghost of the fallen kept fighting for days. I feel bad for those who had to quell their thirst in the blood soaked river." I remember those creepy words from the Age of Empires mission based on this battle, in the Attila campaign.
Imaging slaking your thirst in water that looks like a rosé due to coloring from blood. Yummy. The image of the fallen fighting as ghosts for days, so filled with fury they did not realize they were dead, is a fantastic image.
So, yeah, this comments deserves so many likes
I like it too, the Conquerors Expansion of Age Of Empire II, I even played it and finished several times until the meeting with Pope but I think MS quite exaggerated, 300.000 people, come on! A 5th century war, 300.000 people, how could one gather so many people in that era? :)
Fantastic documentary!
Amazing video! Extreme detail and must have entailed hours and hours of research.
The animation of the map at the start is such a masterpiece 👏
Loved this episode, You covered this battle well. Probably one of the most epic moments in the late empire with Huns, Sarmatians, Germans and proto Slavs fighting against other Sarmatians and Germanic kingdoms of the west. Really a brother against brother fight establishing the freedom of western Europe over the corruption of Eastern Europe.
Well done here Sir and Your Team 💯
Did my Masters in History Thesis on Attila. Absolutely fascinating figure!
His name means Lil' Daddy O. Not so cool when you know the meaning.
Did the Tartarian empire ever get mentioned in any of your investigation and study?
@@scintillam_deiThat is a popular theory in the west. However.. More probably it comes from the old turcic word, itil/etil which means great river, and for a long time was the name of the river Don.
@@scintillam_dei Yeah attila was a German, so was the genghis khan .. 🤣
@@birocsabal Maybe.
Great video! I read an account (can't find cite, sorry!) that suggested Aetius let Atilla go mostly because he was afraid of the Visigoths, who'd saved the day during the battle, gaining too much prestige. He didn't want people thinking "The Huns routinely slap the Romans around, but when *we* show up on the battlefield..."
Excellent! this is where the contexts of parallelism would then take place so that we could sew the simultaneous flows of events from different perspectives in a single picture.
so detailed! This is awesome
It's nice to see a Roman victory.
*Fun fact:* In the 1954 movie "Anthony Quinn's Attila", Aetius is defeated and killed while fighting Attila in the Catalaunian Plains, making Pope Leo the only one who defeated the leader of the Huns. It's a pretty interesting "what if...?" movie, to be honest. There is also a recreation of the meeting between the Pope and the Hun in the movie "Sign of the Pagan", which is also a quite good flick
lmao the pope of all people
I saw this on late night TV as a rerun!!! 😀
I don’t remember most of it anymore because I was still very, very little at the time, , but I still do remember the ending quite well…
Spoilers:
The city of Rome lay undefended, and there is was nothing stopping Atilla from marching in and sacking the city (having previously defeated the last standing Roman army close enough to be able to defend the city. When the Hunnic army finally reached the gates, the Pope walked out of the city and approached them. Seeing that someone wanted to talk, Atillla walked forward and met him in the middle of the field. According to the narrator, they spoke for a long time, just the two of them. Eventually, they stopped talking and went back to their respective camps. At this point Atilla inexplicably turned his army around and went back to their own lands. The conversation itself was never divulged to the viewer. The End.
@Danny Tallmage I was looking for someone to mention that. The video mentions supply issues or possibly plague but no mention of the famous meeting
Excellent upload.
Great video!
Two great and experienced Troops Leaders of opposing sides ,Roman General Aetius Flavius versus Huns Warriors Leader Commander Atilla the Hun with different styles in battle. Aetius Flavius expertise was to create alliances with other warrior tribes to augment his soldiers but with watchful eye on them. He breaks the alliance of 2 powerful tribes whose relatives inter married. Aetius Flavius created schemes against them showing he is a methodical, allies creator and enemy alliance breaker, smart and intelligent he is and prefers to do reconneissance activities on enemies and strengthen his forces Ancient Roman Legions before doing the final attack on his enemy's main Leader Commander Atilla. Atilla the Hun on the other hand whose known in Rome their enemy , he as the Scourge of God. Commanding a formiddable arrow launching Cavalries and sword fighting warriors, a fierce battle Tactician, street smart personality, stealth in style. He uses weakening the enemy strategy by attacking their weaker force that sorrounds their main base stronghold, he likes to divide the enemy and sorround the enemy tactics while Atilla observes and monitor the situation with his greater force while the lesser commanders attacks and intermarriage with other strong tribes. The way the Hun fight is by hit and run tactics mounting on fast horses launching rain of plenty arrows against the Roman Legions troops formation to saturate them, to break their fighting spirit, and to weaken the Roman formations by creating holes in them for them to attack and take advantage of, while his bulk of main army are on standby for final attack order. The Roman Legions though less mobile created an elongated layers of square formations so as not to be attacked in flanks of course with hidden in the bush cavalry to surprise the enemy when they attack front. The Roman Legions want to maintain their phalanx armour like formations as much as possible and when the force of the Huns attacked them at front though some there's some lines and formation breakage there's a ready Roman troops to plug in the holes to maintain not breakage of the order of Roman formations. The Battle in the Catalunian plains between Romans and with their allies versus the Huns with their allies was a draw with numerous casualties on both sides. But when Attila with large armies attacked Rome Italy on some other time if not for the other Roman army who attacked the Huns territory as sneak attack while the large troops of Atilla attacked Italy itself as exchange of territory attacks, Atilla with Huns Warriors could have advanced to Rome itself with his onslaught though not sure if he can prevail on the Rome's defenses or not but when Atilla was notified that his territory was also attacked by Romans he rushed back to defend his main territory. Actually this is a scenario in the future modern wars of almost equal strong opposing forces sides as a strategy of varying styles with equally brilliant rival fighting Generals of their armies. Study their style of warfare and some of those were done and effective in this time onwards.
If you only took a breath every time Rome paid tribute you could make it through the entire video comfortably.
Awesome Video. Great Narration
Nice! You never dissapoint!
There is a belief that Hungary is where many of the Huns have settled in Europe.
Arpad dynasty also claimed Attilid descent
Well that's wrong as the Magyars invaded and settled the European peninsula in the 9th century.
Yes they were mostly based in modern Hungary which makes up the largest portion of the Pannonian Basin, however many Huns migrated back to the Pontic Steppe
Actually when the Magyars settled in the carpathian basins, they found the remnants of the Huns. They are called Szekelys (Seklers), and they are still to be found in today's Transilvania. They could understand each other's language, and the Szekelys quickly joined the new-found Kingdom of Hungary. Huns and Magyars are relatives. Their mythical forefathers were called Hunor and Magor.
@@loecorristo555 not really. Szekely are Ugric people just like Magyars