. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 33.—War Trophy and Barbarian Prisoners.—From Sculptures on the Triumphal Arch of Orange (Second Century). Tongres, the Scheldt at Tournay; and after two sanguinary raids intoBurgundy and the country around Orleans, pitched his tents in the plainsof Champagne. The tactics of Attila were to avoid pitched battles, to givea wide berth to the fortresses, contenting himself with sacking and plunder- 4o WAR AND ARMIES. ing their outskirts. He laid waste the open country, burnt villages, put theirinoffensive in
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 33.—War Trophy and Barbarian Prisoners.—From Sculptures on the Triumphal Arch of Orange (Second Century). Tongres, the Scheldt at Tournay; and after two sanguinary raids intoBurgundy and the country around Orleans, pitched his tents in the plainsof Champagne. The tactics of Attila were to avoid pitched battles, to givea wide berth to the fortresses, contenting himself with sacking and plunder- 4o WAR AND ARMIES. ing their outskirts. He laid waste the open country, burnt villages, put theirinoffensive inhabitants to the sword, and making it his chief object todivide and isolate the Roman legions, finally crushed them by the weightof numbers. The whole West was stirred up at the tidings of this terrible , the Roman leader among the Gauls, had called to his aid the con-federates of Amorica, the Frank-Salians, whose leader was Merovius, theBurgundians, the Saxons, and the southern Visigoths, whose king was. Fig. 34.—German and Gallic Auxiliaries, one wearing Trousers (Braccce), and the other aTunic—From a Eoman Monument of the Second Century. Theodoric. This numerous army, composed of excellent troops under theorders of iEtius, marched to meet the barbarians, and encountered them inthe neighbourhood of Chalons-sur-Marne. The battle lasted three days, andthe defeat of the Huns was complete. The ferocious Attila, who had called himself the Scourge of God, and whohad run his course like some fatal meteor, leaving in his track nothing butconflagrations and ruins, expired in the midst of an orgie in 455. A truce-less, unceasing war was still being waged all over Europe, a sanguinary and WAR AND ARMIES. 41 implacable war of race and of party. Political chaos, a chaos thatChristianity alone was destined to regenerate, was at its height in the oldworld, when, towards the close of the sixth century, Theodoric, King ofthe Eastern Goths, who had protected Byzantium wh
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