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Wednesday, 26 October 2016

So You Want To Know About Attila the Hun?

Written By Clarissa O'Neil



You may know of the Huns from films such as Mulan or Night at the Museum and his depictions as violent and barbaric were more that accurate. You think the name barbarian would give that away.
Nevertheless he was a very effective leader, between 445 and 453 he expanded his empire from, you guessed it, Hungary to Northern Italy at which point his troops ran low on supplies and medicine, meaning after a lil’ chat with Pope Leo I he decided to go home and die, from apparently a nosebleed (allegedly, it's possibly it was caused by chronic alcoholism.)