Les Champs Catalauniques 451 Photographie Unlike the two battles fought

Unlike the two battles fought in Alsace

forage caps and Landwehr shakos

Each map features different buildings from the Iron Age: Houses with their adjoining courtyard

or a sanctuary with its sacrificial pits

at Cravant and Verneuil

Les Champs Catalauniques 451 Photographie Unlike the two battles foughtEveryone has learned in school that the Huns, under Attila's leadership, invaded Gaul in 451 and were defeated in the Catalaunic fields. But do we know precisely on what date, in what place (s) and in what way the Roman Aetius and his barbarian allies inflicted this crushing defeat on the savage hordes? Many scholars have attempted to reconstruct this clash of titans that unfolded under the walls of Troyes. The author has produced a synthesis of