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Greatest Battles

The battle
With much of the battle taking place under the
cover of darkness, events took a turn for the
chaotic, with many of the combatants losing track
of who was fighting who.

Romans
The word ‘Roman’ may inspire images
of military greatness, but in reality the
Roman Empire was a shadow of its former
self by this point. Without the aid of the
Visigoths and other tribes, Gaul would
certainly have fallen.

Casualties
To this day, no one knows the number of
fighters on each side – or the amount of
casualties, for that matter. Reports from the
time talk of hundreds of thousands of dead,
although there is no way to verify this.

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