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Mucellium, Battle of

Years: 542 - 542

The Battle of Mucellium is an engagement in 542 near Mugello, Italy, between Ostrogoths and Byzantines during the Gothic War.

Having lifted a siege of Florence, the Ostrogoths, led by Totila, turn on the pursuing Byzantines, defeating their numerically superior force.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)