By Charles L. Mee Jr.
When Pope Leo the nice rode out of Rome in 452 A.D. to satisfy Attila the Hun, he had no fingers, no military, no armor, no bodyguards, no nice retinue of ambassadors and advisers, increase males and zone experts. He went out purely with a number of fellow churchmen using along him and a pair of lesser officers of the enfeebled and fading Roman Empire.
Attila got here to the stumble upon on the head of a giant, well-armed, battle-hardened military of Huns on horseback. the 2 males met simply because Attila and his fans, having plundered the northern Italian peninsula, have been on their method south, with the obvious goal of sacking Rome. Leo's job was once to cajole Attila to not plunder and burn the heart of Western civilization.
Here, during this short-form publication through award-winning writer Charles L. Mee, Jr., is outstanding tale of that fateful stumble upon and its aftermath.