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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History since 1997

Attila the Hun

Sunday August 5, 2007
Attila the Hun
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Was Attila the Hun a "diplomatic bungler who, when invading the West in 451, managed to cause a whole series of initially disunited enemies to combine against him" or was he a competent and fearsome commander who was just barely persuaded by the pope not to sack Rome?

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