25BATTLE OF CHÂLONS—HUNNIC INVASIONS OF GAULROMANS VERSUS ATTILA (451)
THE FEEL-GOOD FUNNEL:ON USING TIME WISELY
Action expresses priorities.—MAHATMA GANDHI
In 451, while Attila besieged Orleans, his Huns plundered the suburbs. The Romans, under Flavius Aetius, arrived and fell upon the overladen Huns, routing them. They pursued the retreating Huns closely, attacking and devastating their rearguard. Attila would have been content to leave the region, but Aetius was spoiling for a fight. Attila therefore chose the essentially flat and open Catalaunian Plains near Châlons to turn and fight. But it was by now late evening, so the armies encamped ...
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