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170- Atilla Cometh

The History of Rome

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The Huns Return to the Danube Frontier

The huns had returned to the danube frontier in force. After five years of fruitless campaigning against the persians, lihely hoping that they would be able to extract from the sasonids the same sort of indemnity deal they had already extracted from constantinople. By that point, constantinople had its hands full anyway. So sisona daggression, was no longer required, because the huns were feeling aggressive all on their own. This time there was no cover story about pursuing wayward vassals. This was a straight up invasion of roman territory with the intent of carting off any riches contained therein.

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