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it's a bloody rebellion thousands
butchered countryside's torched it's
hell on earth
the rebels and ethnically mixed tribal
people known as Gauls
their champion is the first general to
unite the tribes verson Jetix
his nemesis is one of the most famous
and ruthless generals in ancient history
Julius Caesar
for a hundred years the Romans have
brutally oppressed the Gauls
now it's payback time the stage is set
for one of the greatest military
confrontations in history
a battle of technological wonder that
tests the cunning and resourceful
necedrol
shapes the face of Europe for centuries
to come
and guarantees the future of an empire
it's 52 BC for six years Julius Caesar
has been conducting a brutal campaign
his goal is to conquer the land called
Gaul and turn it into a Roman province
by the time Caesar is given command in
Gaul in 58 BC the Roman Republic had
already expanded into North Africa
Greece Sicily Corsica Cydonia and Spain
but Rome could never entirely subdue its
neighbor to the north gone it had always
been a little tentative about northwards
expansion because the Gauls and the
Romans had a long history 300 year
history of mutual slaughter and
antagonism I mean these people in the
north when they went on invasions were
you know pretty pretty brutal people and
they they sacked Rome in the 3rd century
BC as well so a lot of bad blood but the
Roman Republic grows stronger every day
now leading more than 50,000 Roman
soldiers Julius Caesar fights his way
across Gaul with stunning cruelty Caesar
was sent to goal by the Roman Senate as
a proconsul that is to say to conquer
the the area and turn it into a province
of Rome the interesting thing about this
great general is he had never been in
the military and had absolutely no
experience in combat or command at all
so why then do we regard him as a great
general was a fair question to ask and
the answer is he is the first Roman
general to leave not only his memoirs
but a detailed account of all his
campaigns which of course point to his
brilliance and nothing else
Caesar writes enough about the six year
Gallic war to fill seven books while he
regards himself as a military genius his
successes may be explained by the
quality of his army by the time of the
gala campaigns in Gaul the Roman army
was almost thoroughly professionalized
but prior to 100 BC it had always been a
militia army so he had to raise new
troops every year trained them and then
put them in control of political
generals and they not created problem
but military reforms instituted fifty
years before Caesar comes to power
creates a disciplined army of
professional soldiers
you might have had a quote amateur in
charge of this thing but there were 10
legions of professional soldiers that's
that's one point which counts for
Caesars success the other point I think
is that you can always be a great
general if you're not fighting against
anyone and in the case of the armies of
Gaul they really weren't significant or
maizes Gaul is not a unified nation with
a national army it's a conglomeration of
individual tribal armies who lack
discipline and cohesion the fundamental
problem with Gaul is that I was
essentially an area of 15 to 20 million
people lots of different ethnic groups
they fought one another for generations
and they never developed a sophisticated
military capabilities still conquering
Gaul is more difficult than Caesar
anticipates
it couldn't just defeat one army win a
battle and Gaul was yours
you had to defeat hundreds of little
armies
Cesar faces each new garlic army with
growing ruthlessness
CAES we carried out some horrendous
slaughters as a typical Roman brutality
of making the case that you know you see
the Roman friendship or Roman terror
Ceaser's really was a reign of terror
he destroyed entire villages killed
everyone in them and then he went on to
the next one absolutely brutal and
inevitably over a period of six years
what happened was basically Romans
control end goal was pretty much
established but underneath it all was a
simmering spirit of hatred for the
Romans and spirit of revolt just looking
for a leader to spark it enter verson
Jetix a charismatic Golic general like
caesar he's also on a mission to finally
unite the hundreds of tribes of his
homeland against Caesar
verson Jetix is a worthy adversary to
Caesar as a younger man he trained with
and fought alongside the Roman legion
Merson genrich's was actually a cavalry
man and Caesar's army early in the
Gallic Wars so he knows how the Roman
army worked he knows its strengths he
knows its weaknesses he is the right guy
at the right time to take on Caesar
verson Jett uruk's took it into his head
that perhaps this was the right time
that the goal that probably finally had
it not this tribe or that tribe but
everyone and that if he could provoke a
spark when an attack on the Romans that
was successful what might happen is for
the first time all of the main tribes of
Gaul would assemble together and and
resist Roman rule defeat Caesar and
drive the Romans out and that's what he
had in mind
his plan to provoke Caesar succeeds
vercingetorix marches more than 70,000
soldiers into the Roman town of Orleans
and gives Caesar a taste of his own
medicine and he fell upon it like a lion
upon a rabbit ah and burnt the town and
massacred had murdered everybody the
Gauls
slaughter more than 5000 men women and
children
vercingetorix delivers a clear message
to Caesar
the Gauls will no longer stand for the
Roman generals brutality this was the
spark of revolt there was some signal
event that would galvanize all of Goyal
against the Rome and that's what he
tried to do is you know fairly good
strategic thinker and it worked there
was no turning back for verson Jetix now
the revolution has begun and he and
Caesar are on a collision course
but verson generation has the momentum
he's scoring more victories he has a
massive army behind him and he's using
it well suddenly this guy is unstoppable
despite outnumbering the Romans verson
Jetix knows that his large but fairly
disorganized force will lose a direct
all-out battle against caesar's highly
trained professional army so his
strategy is to strike it Caesars forces
in small bursts of guerrilla style
combat until he inflicts so much damage
the Romans are forced to retreat to
Italy
where´s and jeddaks has a policy just to
keep harassing the Romans keeping them
away from food generally giving Caesar a
headache to further keep the Roman
troops off the balance verse and Jetix
does something that will reverberate
through all of the military history he
convinces the Gauls to torch their own
towns crops and countryside it's a
strategy now known as scorched earth
burn everything burn the towns burn them
Hamlet's burn the fields everything in
other words leave nothing upon which the
Roman army can look and survive in
August of 52 BC after implementing his
scorched earth policy
vercingetorix leads a small Gallic
ambush force against the Romans near
modern-day Dijon
the Gauls favorite weapon is the
broadsword made of iron these heavy
blades are designed to smash down with
brute force the Roman soldier wields a
Gladius 26 inches long two and a half
inches wide the Gladius is made of
razor-sharp steel and is used as a
stabbing weapon after fighting for
several hours at Dijon verson jet uruk's
in true hit-and-run style retreats and
pulls his horse back the Gauls
strategy appears to be successful from
Dijon Caesar begins moving toward the
Italian border verson jetter exchange
for reaching Rome and replenishing his
forces he moves his army down to block
Caesars goal going to Italy okay
it really arrives too late Caesar is
already south of where he comes
so he's behind Caesar he's not in front
of him and he tries to go into the
attack the Romans turn around there's a
skirmish there there's a skirmish then
the Romans break it off at that point
when Christian Jetix does as he says
getting tough to feed the army out here
I'm going to redraw back into my main
supply base alright and hopefully you
know Caesar we're all we're done for the
season Caesar will go south and we'll
finish this next year this proves to be
a colossal mistake calculating that
Caesar will retreat to Rome verson jet
uruk's begins to march his army back to
its base at Alesia a fortified hilltop
city but Caesar isn't going home
he's going after verson Jetix
and what seizure does is instead of
running FanDuel he whirls around on him
kills its rearguard and begin to chase
him back to Alessia as Caesar attacks
the Gallic rearguard first and jet
uruk's and the rest of the Gauls escape
to their small walled city of Alesia
within days all of Caesars 50,000
reinforcements surround the city I mean
they just kept coming and coming a total
of ten Roman legions suddenly surrounded
for some generals
he must have said to himself what the
hell have I gotten myself into here
verse and jet uruk's had great success
leading his guerrilla war against Caesar
but now he's trapped and the small
advantage the Gauls held has completely
evaporated this is caesar's kind of
battle and he's about to conduct one of
the most fantastic siege operations the
ancient world has ever seen
52 BC the city of Alicia the Roman
military commander Julius Caesar and
more than 50,000 Roman soldiers have
trapped 70,000 Gauls and their
revolutionary leader verson Jett uruk's
inside the city Alessi is so important
because it's a big final Cataclysm it's
a last shot
militarily at stopping the Roman control
of all of goal
Alicia is the modern-day city of Elysee
st. reign located in what is now France
the city is about five miles in
circumference likely surrounded by a
small wall about six feet high home to
about 10,000 men women and children
Alicia sits on a small hill some 1500
feet above a valley through the valley
run two small rivers a ring of hills
surround the city it's well protected
giving the Gauls a strong defensive
position nonetheless Cesar decides to
lay siege to Alesia a military campaign
unlike any other in history the siege
works created by by Caesar are just
ingenious and I can't find anyone or any
source to say that the his siege
techniques that he used there had been
used before Caesar's army possesses the
most sophisticated siege technology of
the age they are equipped with a
catapult called Annanagar known as the
wild ass for its kick it's capable of
launching a hundred pound projectile 400
yards the Romans also use the ballista
Latin for stone thrower the ballista
fires LED shot nearly 100 yards each
Roman legion is equipped with 30 of
these but siege means more than just
attacking with powerful high-tech
weapons and Caesar knows that the right
tactical move at Alesia isn't an all-out
garage instead Cesar believes that to
win this battle he shouldn't try to
drive the Gauls out he should starve
them in Cesar decides to build a 10-mile
long wall around elesia to imprison the
Gauls within their own City
what verson Jetix thought would be a
safe haven turns out to be a deathtrap
first Caesars soldiers dig a trench 20
feet deep and 20 feet wide
next they dig another trench 15 feet
wide 8 feet deep that can be flooded
with water then another dry pit and
finally work begins on a wall 12 feet
high
complete with watchtowers every 80 yards
they call it circum fallacious we put up
a wall around the city it's essentially
putting tens of thousands of people in
prison the purpose of that was of course
to make sure that no one in the city
could break out they could get outside
their own walls but only to be trapped
between a killing ground between the
Roman wooden wall and their will that's
the first thing this is not the first
time Caesar has shown himself to be a
master of Technology three years earlier
in 55 BC four hundred thousand Germans
were looking for a new homeland and
crossed the Rhine River to settle in
Gaul
Caesar immediately delivered a brutal
message he sent 50,000 of his troops to
the Rhine River with orders to slaughter
the Germans
what he does next was both horrific
technologically astounding
Caeser foreshadowed his engineering
prowess they will eventually show at
Alessia he built a 400 foot long 40 foot
wide suspension bridge over the rhine
river so that he could chase them back
to germany and hunt them down once
across the river caesar brutally and
mercilessly ravaged the countryside four
hundred thirty thousand people men women
children no survivors in a deliberately
calculated act of political butchery
designed to send a clear message to
another people
brutality aside Caesars spanning of the
Rhine stands as a remarkable engineering
achievement of the ancient world
he built the entire bridge in ten days
it was incredible I mean he built it was
post and beams and cabling and the
reason he built it was to say to the
Germans look the Rhine isn't a barrier
we could come and get you anytime we
want
after the butchery Cesar headed back to
Gaul and immediately destroyed the
bridge
at Alicia Cesar uses the same Roman
technological superiority to trap the
Gauls inside the city the gawak general
verson Jetix watches his Caesars wall
rises up around him
the 12-foot high wall is built partially
from the earth dug out of the trenches
the walls are topped with wooden
ramparts and wooden towers rise every 80
yards on top of all that they put
sharpened sticks kind of like an early
version of barbed wire just in case
someone tries to scale the thing and
except for a couple of areas like places
of natural barriers this wall goes
completely around the city it's a race
against time
once Caesar completes the wall nearly
ten miles in circumference it will be
impenetrable trapping the entire
population of the city of Alesia some
10,000 men women and children as well as
the new tenants the 70,000 strong Golic
fighting force
Vercingetorix does have some beef from
corn stored up at Alessia but it's not
gonna last forever Caesars men could go
and try to steal some or buy some
supplies but that's easier said than
done
don't forget varus and Jetix had burnt a
lot of it during the scorched earth
campaign verson jet uruk's knows that
the winner of this battle will be the
one who is able to stave off starvation
so he decides his only hope is to try to
stop construction of the wall and stop
the Romans from gathering food if he can
outlast Caesar in the city okay
sooner or later the Roman army would
find it very hard to gather supplies and
it too would wither on the vine what he
had to do is he had to keep attacking
the Roman army to prevent it for
foraging from supplies so verson Jetix
resorts to his old tactics hit and run
he sends several thousand of his cavalry
to harass Caesars construction workers
and foragers
vercingetorix gets away with this a few
times but finally during one of these
attacks
Cesar launches a counter-attack we're
not exactly sure how many cavalry Caesar
had but I would imagine about five or
six thousand Roman cavalry and three to
four thousand mercenary cavalry a
skirmish breaks out between Caesars wall
and Alicia the Roman cavalry gained the
advantage and the Gauls retreat but
verson jet uruk's orders alesia's gates
closed to protect the Gauls already
inside very very heavy Gallic losses
guys off their horses trying to
basically claw their way back into the
city verse and jet Oryx has sentenced
his men to death
52 BC the siege of Alesia sees its first
bloodshed a Calvary skirmish has a
deadly end for the Gauls despite winning
the schools Cesar decides to up the ante
in terms of the siege works he orders
more trenches to be dug anti-personnel
devices to be installed and death traps
to be built booby traps with huge
sharpened wooden spikes called chippie
are planted at the bottom of the
trenches
iron barbs called stimuli are spread out
in front of the walls to puncture
soldiers feet and horse hooves flooded
moats were around were there trees
knocked down to create obstacles and
covering it all would be whatever field
guns they had and and arrows archer fire
sling of fire missiles they could
literally she'd fire into his impact
zone after only five weeks the 10 mile
walled equipped with pitfalls obstacles
and anti-personnel devices is nearly
complete the Golic general verson jet
uruk's is forced to take a bold gamble
he sends his entire 15,000 strong
cavalry force to ride across gaul and
recruit help from other gallop tribes
well this seems to be a smart move think
about this for a minute he has had
pretty good success just snipping at
Caesar harassing him not letting him get
anywhere not allowing him to gather food
but he's giving all of that up and he
says no pun intended send in the cavalry
verse and jetter exchanges his tactical
design and allows the Romans in essence
to build a siege works and feed their
own the decision to go for help rather
than continuing to try to disrupt the
foragers and construction workers is a
critical military decision if the
cavalry is caught and the other tribes
don't respond verson jet uruk's and his
army are doomed
now without his cavalry to send forth to
harass the Roman army they can build the
siege works at their leisure which they
do more important than that is they now
can forage freely and what Caesar
understands is clearly what does he say
he orders his commissariat to make sure
you collect a 30-day supply agree still
Caesar knows that if the Gallic cavalry
does come back with reinforcements it
can spell defeat for the Romans to
defend against this Cesar decides to
build another wall about 400 yards away
from the first
Cesar's first wall keeps verson jet
uruk's in his second wall will keep the
reinforcements armies out but it will
also contain 50,000 Roman soldiers who
must camp in between the two walls
outside this wall of circumcision you
construct a second wall called contra
volition latin contra against and this
wall ran 20 miles so you have a wall
inside a wall in a city in the middle
kind of like a looking at from the top
down kind of looking at a layer cake now
with no cavalry to Harris them the
Romans have no difficulty building the
second wall the wall was seamless except
for a small section at the base of Mount
inria near where two small rivers run
through the valley the wall construction
coming to an end everyone starts
realizing that the thing that's going to
win or lose this thing is food Caesar
knows that once the rest of the Gauls
show up it won't be able to send us guys
foraging anymore meanwhile inside the
city fierce Ingenix personally takes
control of the beef and corn rations
around seven weeks into the siege
supplies inside the city are low they
are subsisting on whatever food had been
stored before the siege water for close
to 100,000 women children and garlic
soldiers likely comes from the small
rivers or wells there's a story about
one of verson Jetix astraios saying to
him let's just eat the dead soldiers and
the citizens of the town we could live a
long time like that this would have been
the first example of cannibalism it
won't be the last
think of the Donner Party in our own
history you know the old history books
always call the Gauls barbarians but
they obviously had some humanity
Vercingetorix didn't allow this
verse and jet uruk's knows there are too
many hungry mouths to feed he devises a
plan that he hopes will save the lives
of some of the women and children
what he did is he sent sent them off to
the Roman wall essentially saying look
let these people go there's no point to
this or actually take them in his slaves
Caesar rejects the offer his own men are
on the brink of starvation because the
land around Elisha has been left barren
by verson Jetix is scorched Earth's
strategy he has little sympathy for the
desperate garlic women and children who
must return to Elisha
but verson jet uruk's doesn't want them
back either having gotten rid of this
live number of people that he no longer
had to feed that verse and jeddaks
himself refused to allow them back in
the city walls so that the women and
children live hundreds of women and
children were trapped between the outer
city wall in the inner Roman wall where
they were allowed simply to die of
starvation some 3,000 women and children
are trapped inside the no-man's land
pawns in the struggle of wills between
verse and Jetix and Caesar all these
pathetic soul is just languishing this
kind of limbo they're literally caught
in the middle of this fight
no one wants them
but in this horrible test of wills
verson jet uruk's weakens first finally
the gates to alicia open and the
townspeople re-enter caesar wins the
battle of wills now the garlic leader
vercingetorix doesn't get to transform
his headache into Caesars and Caesar
gets to remind people of just what kind
of man they're dealing with the outlook
for the Gauls is bleak but then three
days later on the horizon a Golic relief
army some 60,000 strong appears
they are led by cominis and old
acquaintances of Caesars
communists had been an ally the Caesar
early on the Gallic wars Barisan Jetix
had actually fought for Caesar also so
it was a real betrayal for Caesar to
have these guys coming against him
communist wastes no time letting Caesar
know he has arrived
for the first time at the siege of
Alesia
Caesar looks like he might be in trouble
60000 garlic soldiers led by a man named
communism have come to the rescue
they're here to help for some Jetix who
is trapped inside the city with tens of
thousands of civilians and soldiers
communists immediately goes on the
offensive
he leads his infantry and attacks the
Roman soldiers stationed on the outside
Gulzar amazingly organized for a bunch
of tribes that hadn't fought together
until recently they had infantry mixed
in with the cavalry and covered the
whole thing with archers and slingers
Caesar has no choice but to launch 5,000
cavalry to defend the wall but they ride
into a hail of arrows
just when it seems the Roman defenses
will collapse Caesar sends in
reinforcements
you
his timing is perfect and the fresh
troops push the Gauls back despite the
incredible difference in numbers
Caesar pushes the Gauls back all the way
to the hills just massacring the archers
who had been supporting the Gallic
cavalry the fight rages from noon until
sunset
the Romy's emerge victorious
the Gauls first assault ends in disgrace
the bow was nearly theirs they had four
times number soldiers and still cannot
defeat Caesar this does not bode well
but verson Jetix is not about to give up
the fight somehow he manages to
coordinate with communists to launch a
nighttime multi-pronged attack against
the Roman positions we don't know a lot
about how much Communists and worsen
genrich's could communicate with each
other maybe they had spies who could
sneak through but in battle I doubt they
could communicate at all it's just chaos
verson Jetix leads a force attempting to
break through the inside wall cominis
and his men attempt to scale the outside
wall
a third Golic force also on the outside
tries to break through the outer wall on
the far side of the city the Gauls are
learning trying different tactics this
time they've got the cover of darkness
on their side and they've got ladders
and wall hooks to scale the walls
unfortunately for the Gauls Caesar still
has the upper hand up in the siege tower
he can easily see exactly what the Gauls
are doing with the high ground
Caesars men easily repelled the Gauls
below
they're launching arrows but also just
this huge supply of stones and sharp
sticks nothing sophisticated but I
wouldn't want someone standing 12 feet
over me throwing stones at my head
you're trying to fill in these ditches
and moats and the whole time people are
throwing deadly debris at you in between
the walls verson Jetix is getting
pummeled on the other side of the city
caesar's siege works are doing their job
the little presence that Caesar planted
the anti-personnel devices are really
paying off here
these guys can't take a step without
falling 10 feet onto a huge spike or
getting a hook caught in their legs
Ceaser's brilliantly planned siege of
the city is proving too much for the
Gauls
calmness is being beaten on the outside
first and Jetta Rex is being beaten on
the inside the anti-personnel devices
are killing Gauls right and left and
they both have this constant rain of
Roman throwing spears and arrows coming
down on them by daybreak all the Gallic
forces both inside and outside the walls
are forced to retreat once again
Caesar is successful it's got to be
driving co- Andres and Jetix crazy they
have three times the army yet they're
spending most of their time filling up
ditches and dying at the hands of the
Romans Caesars like a master chess
player by imprisoning Alessia then
building the second wall to repel the
Gauls from the outside he's neutralized
numbers advantage to Gauls have absolute
genius five more days pass starvation is
taking its toll on the Gauls
desperately the Gauls try to figure out
how to stop the Romans they were already
beaten back twice but they had to do
something the people inside were beyond
being out of food finally the Gauls
discover the weak spot in the Roman
outer wall near the foot of mount RIA
because of the O's River Caesar couldn't
completely connect his outer wall it's a
gap communist hopes to exploit
so what they do is they sneak under
cover of night to that weak spot tucked
between the two hills and they stay
hidden in the woods at noon the next day
they attack
common is's men flood through the
opening in the wall and ravage the Roman
infantry
had another part of the wall a second
Dalek force attempts to break in the
second Golic force begins to overwhelm
the wall the Romans are simply running
out of stuff to throw at them at the
same time Vercingetorix attacks from the
inside
Cesar watches this three-pronged garlic
attack from his siege tower
historians like to debate whether Caesar
was really such a great tactician what
he did at that final battle it was like
conducting an orchestra Cesar decides to
commit 3,600 reinforcements to his
defenses at the gap in the wall he
ordered reinforcements cavalry to come
around from the northeast side to help
protect the weak spot but at the same
time the Gulf sent another 20,000 troops
into the gap in the wall
but you see 20,000 men isn't going to do
your a lot of good when you're trying to
funnel them through essentially a narrow
gap between two rivers while you're
being opposed on both sides by legion
camps and in the front by a ditch in a
wall Cesar watches as the Gaul switched
tactics if they can't go through the
wall they will tear it down by now
they're at the wall and they're just
tearing at these with these mural hooks
they're iron hooks designed for tearing
down the walls of a besieged town
everything's kind of backwards because
of Caesars walls usually it's the
conquering force that's using mural
hooks not the defenders the battle rages
on all fronts
Cesar finally takes matters into his own
hands he personally leads 2400 more men
into battle
he takes command of four cohorts of
intra tree himself puts on his famous
red cloak he always thought it important
that troop should see their commander in
battle and leads these four cohorts
right into the fray the Roman line was
ready to break until Caesar arrived at
the last minute with the reinforcements
there is hacking at Gauls with his
Gladius absolutely butchering
there's a big difference between the
commander saying charge and one saying
follow me boys
Pattin wore a red cloak just because of
Caesar
now that Caesars there the Roman legions
put down all these pillow manned
javelins and things that they were
throwing from a distance and they pick
up their swords and they just charged
the Gauls Caesar has the momentum and
he's going in for the kill
more than two months into the siege of
Alicia Julius Caesar wearing his famous
red cloak leads his men into battle
against the Gauls
and the text say that what was happening
is that the Roman line was ready to
break until Caesar arrived at the last
minute with his four cohorts with the
reinforcements and at the same time you
know increasing Roman morale because
they saw that commander fighting with
them with with the with the red cloak my
evening Caesar has the momentum he
chases the Gauls to their camp cuts them
down like animals
despite the impending defeat verson jet
uruk's fights on
his strategy of uniting the Garlic
tribes to fight against Roman oppression
has failed
verson Jedrek soon realizes he has lost
the defeat sends the message of kind of
despair to the other tribes in the
coalition and after a day or two one by
one as they had done so many times in
the past they've been wander back to
their own tribal lands and even verson
Jetix understands that the game is over
and he's the one who takes the
initiative and opens negotiations with
the Romans Caesar had made a name for
himself by wiping out entire tribes but
uncharacteristically after this battle
he decides to spare the Golic warriors
Caesar was pretty lenient way out of
character for the guy who is famous for
annihilating whole tribes maybe he
sensed that in order to keep insurgents
down he had to change tactics maybe he
even acquired a newfound respect for the
way they had performed in battle but of
course for some Jett uruk's had started
this he had to be made an example
October 2nd 52 BC after almost two
months of bloodshed verson jet uruk's
finally surrenders first and jet uruk's
puts his best armor on and marches
through the gate comes right up to
Caesar and tens of thousands of Romans
behind him you can imagine the scene
here's this guy who had dared to
challenge Caesar coming face to face
with him
a valiant warrior but one who has
committed a basic tactical error
he had a plan not to take Caesar head on
but the skirmish cut his communication
cut his supply lines just harass him at
every turn he held on to that at times
when he could have tried to go in for
the kill but he stayed disciplined then
he suddenly scrapped the whole idea he
sends his best fighters to go get help
help that didn't end up doing much good
it's fascinating
he had hung to the original strategy
right to the point where it was
succeeding and then for whatever reason
changes the strategy and it cost him
dearly while many of the Gauls are freed
verson Jett uruk's is brought to Rome
and executed and as the story goes for
which there's probably not much evidence
that when that and during one of Caesars
triumphs he was he was strangled in put
a full public view more likely he was
simply executed in a Roman dungeon the
Romans were not I mean they had no
problems with public execution but in
this case they were just well to be rid
of what was called a firebrand of the
Gauls the man who afraid that would
light Gaul on fire
Cesar spends the winter extinguishing
the dying embers of the rebellion Rome
will not have to fight the Gauls for
another four hundred years one can
compare Caesar to William Tecumseh
Sherman of the march through Georgia
Fame in 1867 he was given the job of
breaking the resistance of the Indians
in the West he used the exact same
tactics scorched earth Massacre removal
starvation against the Americans that
Caesar had against the Garlic tribes and
with the same results he won the
Americans were settled on reservations
and became America elesia was a great
personal victory for Julius Caesar who
at times was the besieged as well as the
procedure but the outcome of this battle
is more than just dramatic material for
Caesars own writings
Battle of Alessia in the long run was a
benefit of the most beneficial things
that happen to all of Europe because
what it did is it allowed the thorough
romanization of an enormous area from
the Rhine all the way to the Pyrenees
what today we would call Western Europe
was was civilized and organized as a
province of Rome and then became under
the Empire essentially raw Italy in Rome
itself it got to a point where the Gauls
never thought of themselves as anything
except Romans some say that Caesar's
campaign was really a reign of terror
but at Alesia
he used brilliant tactics to defeat a
large Golic army that attacked from two
directions the result was that Caesar
not only destroyed the Gauls he United
the land that would become a significant
part of Western Europe and it all was
made possible Eltham Utley by the
brilliance of a Julius Caesar and the
defeat of verson Jetix at the Battle and
siege of alessio
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