Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, 451 (ALL PARTS) ⚔️ The man who defeated Attila the Hun DOCUMENTARY 

🚩 I combined all parts of our "Battle of the Catalaunian Plains" mini-series for easier viewing. This video was chosen by my Patrons. Thank you so much for your likes and comments ❤. If you enjoy my videos please consider subscribing. 🚩 The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, (AD 451), battle fought between the Huns under Attila and a mixed Roman and Visigoth force under Aetius and Theodoric I; checked the Hunnic advance in Europe. The battle, long-remembered for its ferocity, resulted in Attila’s defeat, though the casualty figures in traditional accounts are probably exaggerated. The Huns’ defeat prevented the widespread destruction and spoliation of Gaul, but it is unlikely that Attila’s horde could have made any deep impression upon the Latin and urban character of the country.

Seeing the empire like this is heartbreaking

This dudes voice was MADE for epic historical voiceovers. He better be being recruited by videogame studios for narration roles. Freaking epic and gets me pumped!

The Catalunian Plains' battle was so epic, it served as an important inspiration for Tolkien when he wrote LOTR. In fact, King Theoden's story is heavily based on Theodoric I

Epic story!! Attila the Hun goes toe to toe with his old friend - two men with fierce military prowess. Nicely done my friend! Anything to do with this man is awesome - even more so that you brought this clash to life!

"Atila, that boar would have killed me had you not intervened." "Pity that none will ever learn of your loyalty, Archers Attack!"

Aetius was “ rewarded” for his good work, by being murdered by the Emperor. Rome had a bad habit of killing many of their best leaders, Also it shows what a complicated strategic game Rome was playing at the time that they wanted the Huns defeated, but NOT destroyed completely in case they could be allies later against other groups.

That dynamically fluid visual history of peoples and cultures flowing across the map during the first two minutes was incredible! ❤🎉

They literally did everything different in the 2001 movie "Attila". The inaccuracies are endless. In contrast to this well made and thoroughly researched video. Thank you very much for the content.

I know Theodocious II was a minor player in this video, but you should have mentioned HOW he got the walls repaired so fast, because that story shows how clever a man he was. He leveraged the rivalries between the fans of the red, white, green, and blue chariot racing teams to get them to rebuild the walls in record time and pay for almost all of it from their own pockets!

i am a visual learner and putting these five episodes together REALLY helps me to put this very complex history together. i saw the individual episodes, but this unified story had a much greater impact on me. An important part of this was seeing the differing time scales play out on the maps. Don't get me started on how wonderful Your maps are! The color changes and movement timed to the narrative bring it to life! Beautiful, educational work brilliantly conceived and executed! Thank You and Your patrons !:-) 💜🙏⚡️

"Whether well or not, I do not know. But know that you have cut off your right hand with your left." -Priscus, in response to Valentinian III boasting he had murdered Aetius "well".

I guess Aetius was well aware of the power of the Visigoths and somehow hoped to keep the menace of Attila around both to keep the Germans hands tied and those of the Romans too. He tried to make himself not replaceable and survive that way it's triumphs, well aware of the fate that befell on Stilicho, the other great general of the late Rome. He urged Theodric's son to rush home before his brother could take over in his absence, gaining some measure of trust in exchange, and somehow kept the respect of Attila, who lost the battle but was allowed to retreat. In the meantime, he bet Valentinian couldn't get rid of him, with the menace of the Visigoths and the Huns roaming freely in the est. Aetius underestimated the stupidity of its own enemies at home, more used to deal with predatory but honourable barbarians then sneaky and selfish Roman politicians. An old saying tells: "keep your firends close and your enemy closer", but another one tells: "never underestimate the stupidity of human greed" as Belisarius later learned.

THIS WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!! Reminds me of when I was a young kid, 5,6,7 years of age and I spammed all of these strategy games on my PC. I loved this video!!! Thanks so much! It's better than 100% of everything that's on TV, Netflix etc. Hope you have more

Excellent mini-series! I read a lot on this period and on the main actors, but most documents provide a single point of view or focus on a single event (the life of Bonifacius, of Galla Placidia, of Aetius, of Attila, the migration/invasion of Vandals, the changing alliances of Wisigoths, the destruction of the first Burgundian kingdom etc.), but the big picture and the connections between events are here better presented than in any other document I saw or read. Thumbs up!

Wow, amazing narative! I was presented with the video by chance then I stick all the way to the end! Thank you so much for the video, I have thoroughly enjoyed it! The pre-battle background and the post-battle consequences as well as the character building are great bonus in addition to the battle itself!

La grande classe!!! Resuming such a mess for decades is a real "tour de force", with the beautiful music of the English language you speak, it is a delight!!! Congratulations from a french man, Burgonde descendant from Savoy!!!

Really Really enjoyed the way you showed population movements during this! Helped so much in visualizing this whole point in history!

I love the historical information these videos give, but more than that I love the voice of the narrator. Beautiful, clean and clear voice. Keep up the good work. Thank you

Mulțumesc frumos, vouă celor care încercați cu aceste documentare video să ne faceți zilele mai bune! Sunt lucruri neștiute de mine, deoarece istoria este cu mult mai amplă, cu ajutorul vostru înțelegem ce trebuie! Respect!

A brilliant detailed and fantastically awesome video on one of the crucial battles of the late western roman empire. Which shows just how much Rome owned to Soldiers like Aetius and before him Stilicho in keeping its fading and withering carcass of an empire alive for another 50-70 years by finding new and inventive ways to beat back the barbarians at the gates and look how they were rewarded for such service. One of the many reasons for why the western empire collapsed 20 years after Aetius death, case of shooting itself in the foot.

I agree that the battle on the Catalaunian fields was won by the Romans, three obvious facts point to their victory: 1) The city of Orleans withstood the siege of the Huns, because of which they could not capture it and attack another city, Toulouse. 2) During the actual battle on the Catalaunian fields, the Huns suffered heavy losses, which is why they retreated from Gaul. Thanks to this, Flavius Aetius received booty from the battlefield and it became a symbol of his victory over Attila, Prosper and Gregory of Tours wrote about this. 3) The Roman vassal Merovei became the king of the Franks and not his brother, who was a vassal of the Huns!

Something I have noticed is that the more downward the spiral of Rome the more it just bribes enemies into not attacking and then they end up attacking anyway stronger than ever thanks to the money. If they just scorch earthed consistently and made it not worth the trouble of invading every chance they got...

I am mightily impressed by the volume of information in each of these videos. Outstanding work.

Absolutely marvelous, your depiction and graphics of the geography and battle order are so detailed and clear and beautiful!!

This was a true epic story, your narration and visual style are top of the line! If there is one more thing I could advise you guys: Many other channels have started including their research, notes and/or links in the description. You should consider adding them there so people who wish to study this period more, either with contemporary or modern sources, can start at and do so.

Yes!Was waiting on this one.Thank ya’ll for your hard work!

whenever you are bored or sick at home these unbelievable videos come along . please don't stop !

A lot of rich detail on the events leading to this huge battle. Very well researched. Thank you for posting this.

Fantastic battle well told.. Very important as it changed the course of history. Shame Aetius was assassinated he could have achieved so much more. Great work guys 👏

I owe my insatiable thirst of history to Age of Empires II. It's exciting to have played the campaigns, and then watching this to know what really happened.

Excellent videos! It really helps to visualize the precarious state of the roman empire at that time! Keep up the great work History Marche!!!

This was brilliant!! Thank you so much.

If only bleda's plot to use the iron boar, who lurks near here, and a few feudal age archers to kill his brother Attila worked then things would have been much different

Man this is wild, the Romans still held on to whatever they could while being trounced on all sides.

Love your spartan use of the Wilhelm scream in your vids. Very exciting and eye-opening history. Cheers!

Your channel is the only channel where I like your videos before I actually watch them because I know before hand that they will become a masterpiece 💯‼️🎯

"Hey, guys. What if we DIDN'T kill each other, but opposed the enemy?" "Nah."

Excellent work here and much appreciated the work here.

so many juicy trivia morsles and so exquisitly presented with visuals being simple yet engaging and verbal details calm and clear... and above all neither 'over powering' the other but complementing each other.. THANK YOU! dam just as i wish school could have hade sabaton back in the day for history class on modern history.. this presentation would been a sodding golden aid for the valiant effort some of my teachers did.

The beginning was awesome I’d love to watch a video like that that goes as far back as we can be knowledgeable about the migrations of different people. To see where groups came from, who they used to be and who they are now would be so interesting. Or just seeing the different huge “barbarian” raids that snake across a continent for a few years and then disperses.

Good work guys once again. The only thing to notice is that in the transitions your soundtracks got mixed and it wasn't a good experience for the viewer. Nevertheless, your good work over the years makes me trustful of your efforts and your ability to recover from small mistakes like the one aforementioned. Good work and thank you for this video!

Excellent! this is where the contexts of parallelism would then take place so that we could sew the simultaneous flows of events from different perspectives in a single picture.

This was absolutely excellent. Thank you.

This narrator has such powerful voice Literally definition is umpth!! Love listening to historymarche 🔥💯🔥

Thank you for this excellent work! I've enjoyed myself quite a lot while watching this video, plus I learnt loads. My vision of Aetius has changed forever, he was quite a tough customer! I would like to find more information about the Bacaudae (we call them Bagaudes) as I am from Northwestern France; I was also intrigued by all these non-Gallo-Roman 'pockets' in the surroundings. And does anyone know what these 'Liticians' were?

Awesome documentary. This battle turned on a knife edge. Amazing.

Wonderfully well done! Thank you.

Also called "Battle of Chalons", it's the city i'm living in :D ... and some kilometers away there is a place called "Attila's camp"

This is one of my favorite videos on the channel

Most Informative Episode & Excellent Historical coverage of That Period of Time 400-450 AD about Eastern & Western Rome Empires ....always (History Marche )channel introducing Excellent History Videos allot thanks

the battle on the Utus river deserves special mention!!!!!!!!!❤ Please make a video about her and the Eastern Roman Empire and her battles with the Huns

The quality of these videos is unbelievable.

Time to rewatch this masterpiece!

Digging the epic stepping in intro. Gives it more epicness :P Also gives a more dicriptive backround definetly helps!

Amazing video! Extreme detail and must have entailed hours and hours of research.

Great video as always! I especially enjoyed the effort that went into the animations of migratory forces entering and changing the WRE. History Marches On!

Flavius Aetius: *Defeats Attila the Hun, the greatest threat Rome faced since Hannibal, thus saving the Roman Empire* Valentinian III: "So, anyway, I started stabbing. My wise uncle Honorius would be so proud..." 🥲

One of my fav of yalls keep improving its awesome!

battle of Catalonian plains is one of the decisive battles in the roman his. infact this was led by a goth general like Stilicho. Flavius Aetius one of the best commanders at that time. also a brilliant tactician. we always appreciate all your hard work for make these combined vids. love from Sri Lankan fan and history addicter. I also learned that LOTR writer and great fantasy genre legend JRR TOLKIEN the battle of pelannor fields was inspired by this battle that said Elizabeth solopova . also king Théoden and his death in this battle influenced by king Theodoric I of goths . brilliant as always.

I love the sacks of gold continually being flung to Ruga. Honoria sending a ring to Atilla which contained a seal of authenticity was a moronic move.

Big respect for this great produced historical documentry and even with a bunch of the most spoken languages as subtitles. 👍👍 you and your team are really amazing!

Loved the video, great work

Wonderful history lesson! Thank you!

And then the emperor he’d saved went and assassinated him. But it is a fascinating story, Aetius and Attila, men who spent time as “hostages” in their opposite cultures.

I'm glad you and other channels do/did videos on the Huns and the Magyars raiders, too bad Epic History and Oversimplified channels don't make any video relating to them and they are major popular channels.

Love the content thanks

Great video as always

It's my first time on this channel. But everything is on master level, the animations, map labels, voice acting, story telling. Pure masterclass. 👍

Incredible video! Love the details you went into describing the tribes involved in either camp. Do you plan to do more videos about the succeeding periods? For example: The power struggle between the Franks and the Visigoths, how the Ostrogoths take over Italy etc.?

Great video. Thoroughly covered.

Fantastic video, thank you!

geez, this is more fascinating than any epic novel. Game of thrones has nothing on this.

"Cadavera vero innumera, truly countless bodies. Perhaps 300,000 people died in the battle of the Catalonian Fields. Some say the ghost of the fallen kept fighting for days. I feel bad for those who had to quell their thirst in the blood soaked river." I remember those creepy words from the Age of Empires mission based on this battle, in the Attila campaign.

so detailed! This is awesome

Thank you for videos!

Loved this episode, You covered this battle well. Probably one of the most epic moments in the late empire with Huns, Sarmatians, Germans and proto Slavs fighting against other Sarmatians and Germanic kingdoms of the west. Really a brother against brother fight establishing the freedom of western Europe over the corruption of Eastern Europe.

Aetius had an army that despised him more than the enemy and still won lmao.

Fantastic video with great detail

Fantastic documentary!

The animation of the map at the start is such a masterpiece 👏

Two great and experienced Troops Leaders of opposing sides ,Roman General Aetius Flavius versus Huns Warriors Leader Commander Atilla the Hun with different styles in battle. Aetius Flavius expertise was to create alliances with other warrior tribes to augment his soldiers but with watchful eye on them. He breaks the alliance of 2 powerful tribes whose relatives inter married. Aetius Flavius created schemes against them showing he is a methodical, allies creator and enemy alliance breaker, smart and intelligent he is and prefers to do reconneissance activities on enemies and strengthen his forces Ancient Roman Legions before doing the final attack on his enemy's main Leader Commander Atilla. Atilla the Hun on the other hand whose known in Rome their enemy , he as the Scourge of God. Commanding a formiddable arrow launching Cavalries and sword fighting warriors, a fierce battle Tactician, street smart personality, stealth in style. He uses weakening the enemy strategy by attacking their weaker force that sorrounds their main base stronghold, he likes to divide the enemy and sorround the enemy tactics while Atilla observes and monitor the situation with his greater force while the lesser commanders attacks and intermarriage with other strong tribes. The way the Hun fight is by hit and run tactics mounting on fast horses launching rain of plenty arrows against the Roman Legions troops formation to saturate them, to break their fighting spirit, and to weaken the Roman formations by creating holes in them for them to attack and take advantage of, while his bulk of main army are on standby for final attack order. The Roman Legions though less mobile created an elongated layers of square formations so as not to be attacked in flanks of course with hidden in the bush cavalry to surprise the enemy when they attack front. The Roman Legions want to maintain their phalanx armour like formations as much as possible and when the force of the Huns attacked them at front though some there's some lines and formation breakage there's a ready Roman troops to plug in the holes to maintain not breakage of the order of Roman formations. The Battle in the Catalunian plains between Romans and with their allies versus the Huns with their allies was a draw with numerous casualties on both sides. But when Attila with large armies attacked Rome Italy on some other time if not for the other Roman army who attacked the Huns territory as sneak attack while the large troops of Atilla attacked Italy itself as exchange of territory attacks, Atilla with Huns Warriors could have advanced to Rome itself with his onslaught though not sure if he can prevail on the Rome's defenses or not but when Atilla was notified that his territory was also attacked by Romans he rushed back to defend his main territory. Actually this is a scenario in the future modern wars of almost equal strong opposing forces sides as a strategy of varying styles with equally brilliant rival fighting Generals of their armies. Study their style of warfare and some of those were done and effective in this time onwards.

Superb work. Hats off.

Well done here Sir and Your Team 💯

Did my Masters in History Thesis on Attila. Absolutely fascinating figure!

*Fun fact:* In the 1954 movie "Anthony Quinn's Attila", Aetius is defeated and killed while fighting Attila in the Catalaunian Plains, making Pope Leo the only one who defeated the leader of the Huns. It's a pretty interesting "what if...?" movie, to be honest. There is also a recreation of the meeting between the Pope and the Hun in the movie "Sign of the Pagan", which is also a quite good flick

Another fantastic video by @historymarche

Fascinating. Thanks.

Quality content, well made 👌

Just finished reading Ross Laidlaw’s book about Aetius and Attila! Great stuff as usual, guys, thanks!

Awesome video. Thanks for this great presentation on Atila and Huns, and other major characters on all sides. I was wondering if east and west roman empires could defeat or at least contain the Huns. Peace and love from Slovenija ( Ljubljana / Emona).

Man these videos are so good

If you only took a breath every time Rome paid tribute you could make it through the entire video comfortably.

Attilla abandoned the invasion of Italy because of Pope Leo I and not because of supply shortages or plague. And the Hunnic empire didnt collaps after Atillas death, but the western part was abandoned, and the eastern, lived on.

Nice! You never dissapoint!

This is my favorite video of you guys. You should do a series on the last century of rome to the conquest of England 1066. It's one of the most interesting periods in western Europe to most of us viewers bc nobody covers it

I miss the Hannibal series 💙

Yay!

Am I the only one who can watch and love these, but then forget absolutely everything I learned and later rewatch them?

My explanation for Aetius not pursuing Attila goes like this: The Roman auxillaries were visibly and utterly exhausted after holding up against Attila's men for so long, the Alans had almost completely routed meanwhile his other visigothic troops on his right were weary and shocked by the death of their king, the only fresh contingent were Thorismund's cavalrymen, so Aetius could not risk his infantry and shattered cavalry in an engagement with Attila, otherwise his own kingdom in Gaul was at risk, furthermore, Thorismund couldn't have besieged the camp with cavalry alone, so had to back down to secure his throne in Toulouse.