Click2Biography - Attila the Hun: Attila's Western Travels - Chapter 8

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=006633> <table width="100%" bgcolor=006633> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>ATTILA THE HUN</p> <p><font size="4"><b>CHAPTER 8 - ATTILA'S WESTERN TRAVELS</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Historians record the Huns caused death and destruction on their westward trek. A few towns, however, were able to resist the onslaught.</p><ul> <li>From the area of the Danube, the Huns traveled to <a target="_blank" href="images/rhineland.gif"><b>the Rhineland</b></a>. Although scholars are unsure where Attila crossed the <a target="_blank" href="images/rhine.gif"><b>Rhine</b></a>, at some point he and his men began to <a target="_blank" href="images/follow_moselle.gif"><b>follow the Moselle</b></a> (also known as the Mosel) River.</li><br><br> <li>Historians believe the Huns captured <a target="_blank" href="images/trier.jpg"><b>Trier</b></a>, today a German city <a target="_blank" href="images/on_the_mosel.gif"><b>on the Mosel</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/metz.jpg"><b>Metz</b></a> (now a French university <a target="_blank" href="images/town.8.jpg"><b>town</b></a> and home of <a target="_blank" href="images/etienne.jpg"><b>St. Etienne</b></a> Cathedral) was besieged, then fell on the 7th of April, 451.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/orleans.gif"><b>Orleans</b></a>, in an unusual event, successfully resisted Attila.</li><br><br> <li>So did <a target="_blank" href="images/paris.jpg"><b>Paris</b></a> - thanks, <a href="http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=120" target="_blank"><b>it is said</b></a>, to <a target="_blank" href="images/stgenevieve_vigee_lebrun.jpg"><b>St. Genevieve</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>At <a target="_blank" href="images/Troyes.jpg"><b>Troyes</b></a>, St. Loup <a target="_blank" href="images/met.jpg"><b>met</b></a> with Attila, <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.v.i.xci.html" target="_blank"><b>successfully negotiating</b></a> to keep the Huns from destroying the town.</li></ul> <p align="justify">After decimating the French towns, Attila encountered his childhood acquaintance, Flavius Aetius. Their deadly battle is still known as one of the most famous ever fought in the history of the world.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="attila_hun_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="attila_hun_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="attila_hun_ch9.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>