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How did Odoacer come to rule Rome?

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Odoacer defeated the Roman general Orestes at Piacenza, took Ravenna (the West Roman capital), and deposed Romulus Augustulus , last Roman emperor of the West (until the coronation in 800 of Charlemagne).

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