The Battle of Adrianople

Etius arrived at the besieged city on june fifteenth, just in time to save the beleaguered inhabitants. Attila had breached a portion of the wall and had already established a beech head within the city when the news came that a massive roman army was approaching. Caught in the middle of a siege operation, attila decided to withdraw and regroup, rather than immediately turn to fight aetius. The two armies lined up in late june and proceeded to launch a full scale assault on one another with no quarter asked or given. But while this victory was sweet, it was not decisive. The huns had pulled back, but they were not broken.