Retreat to châlons

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 secondary

Attila lifts the siege approach near Orléans, retreats to the plains of Châlons, consults priests and haruspices, and arranges a battle formation that culminates in a fight on the Catalaunian Fields.

been planted in the diocese of Bayeux; the Burgundians were settled in Savoy; and the Breones were a warlike tribe of Rhaetians, to the east of the Lake of Constance.] On their approach the king of the Huns immediately raised the siege, and sounded a retreat to recall the foremost of his troops from the pillage of a city which they had already entered. 39 The valor of Attila was always guided by hi…