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Location: Hefei Anhui (Anhwei) China

Frigidus, Battle of the

Years: 394 - 394

The Battle of the Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, is fought between September 5–6, 394, between the army of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I and the army of Western Roman ruler Eugenius.The defeat of Eugenius and his commander, the Frankish magister militum Arbogast, puts the whole empire back in the hands of a single emperor for the last time in Roman history.

Most significantly, the battle is the last attempt to contest the Christianization of the empire; its outcome decided the outcome of Christianity in the western Empire.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)