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Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

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View of East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Library of Congress)

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A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

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Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

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The battle of First Bar, 1841

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Statue of Richard the Lionheart outside the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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The capture of Jerusalem in 1099

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Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848. Found in the Collection of Musée Carnavalet, Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The death of a dream: why Europe’s great year of revolution in 1848 failed

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President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

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Adolf Hitler photographed with Nazi war generals

Second World War

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Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Painting by Emile Signol (1804–1892), (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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