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→The actual "Fall": The Eastern (Byzantine) Empire was legally and technically the Roman Empire.
== The actual "Fall" ==
== The actual "Fall" ==
[[File:Rome-Barbarians2.jpg|thumb|560px|actual barbarian invasions 400-526 AD]]
[[File:Rome-Barbarians2.jpg|thumb|560px|actual barbarian invasions 400-526 AD]]
The actual "fall" of the Western Roman Empire is said to have occurred on September 4, 476 A.D. when [[Odoacer]], a barbarian part Hun general led a mutiny by most of the barbarian mercenaries in Orestes' army (the master general in Italy, and father of the Emperor whom he had placed on the throne the previous year after a coup). Orestes was defeated at the [[Battle of Pavia]] on August 23 and captured and killed after a brief siege. Odoacer deposed [[Romulus Augustulus]] and seized control of Italy. He did not take the title of Emperor, thus ending 500 years of Roman rule.<ref>Encyclopedia of Military History, Dupuy and Dupuy, p. 171</ref>
The actual "fall" of the Roman Empire is said to have occurred on September 4, 476 A.D. when [[Odoacer]], a barbarian part Hun general led a mutiny by most of the barbarian mercenaries in Orestes' army (the master general in Italy, and father of the Emperor whom he had placed on the throne the previous year after a coup). Orestes was defeated at the [[Battle of Pavia]] on August 23 and captured and killed after a brief siege. Odoacer deposed [[Romulus Augustulus]] and seized control of Italy. He did not take the title of Emperor, thus ending 500 years of Roman rule.<ref>Encyclopedia of Military History, Dupuy and Dupuy, p. 171</ref>
== After "the Fall" ==
== After "the Fall" ==