It always amazes me how quickly people can go from "Hero to Zero". Take Attila the Hun, while not technically a "hero", Atilla and his army had brutally and descively conquered all of Asia by 450 AD. Everything from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire was ravaged. Villages burned. Countrysides pillaged. So, what brought down this unstoppable force?
A nosebleed on his wedding night.
In 453 AD, Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during large banquets. On his wedding night, however, he went to town, drinking himself into a stupor. It was in this stupor, that Attila was to be undone, as sometime during the night he suffered a nosebleed, and too drunk to notice he drowned in his own blood. He was found dead the next morning.
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I HATE when that happens. Poor guy. He had a chance to really make a difference too.
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