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it's a bloody rebellion thousands
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butchered countryside's torched it's
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hell on earth
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the rebels and ethnically mixed tribal
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people known as Gauls
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their champion is the first general to
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unite the tribes verson Jetix
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his nemesis is one of the most famous
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and ruthless generals in ancient history
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Julius Caesar
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for a hundred years the Romans have
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brutally oppressed the Gauls
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now it's payback time the stage is set
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for one of the greatest military
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confrontations in history
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a battle of technological wonder that
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tests the cunning and resourceful
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necedrol
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shapes the face of Europe for centuries
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to come
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and guarantees the future of an empire
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it's 52 BC for six years Julius Caesar
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has been conducting a brutal campaign
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his goal is to conquer the land called
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Gaul and turn it into a Roman province
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by the time Caesar is given command in
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Gaul in 58 BC the Roman Republic had
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already expanded into North Africa
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Greece Sicily Corsica Cydonia and Spain
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but Rome could never entirely subdue its
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neighbor to the north gone it had always
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been a little tentative about northwards
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expansion because the Gauls and the
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Romans had a long history 300 year
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history of mutual slaughter and
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antagonism I mean these people in the
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north when they went on invasions were
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you know pretty pretty brutal people and
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they they sacked Rome in the 3rd century
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BC as well so a lot of bad blood but the
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Roman Republic grows stronger every day
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now leading more than 50,000 Roman
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soldiers Julius Caesar fights his way
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across Gaul with stunning cruelty Caesar
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was sent to goal by the Roman Senate as
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a proconsul that is to say to conquer
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the the area and turn it into a province
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of Rome the interesting thing about this
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great general is he had never been in
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the military and had absolutely no
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experience in combat or command at all
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so why then do we regard him as a great
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general was a fair question to ask and
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the answer is he is the first Roman
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general to leave not only his memoirs
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but a detailed account of all his
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campaigns which of course point to his
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brilliance and nothing else
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Caesar writes enough about the six year
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Gallic war to fill seven books while he
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regards himself as a military genius his
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successes may be explained by the
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quality of his army by the time of the
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gala campaigns in Gaul the Roman army
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was almost thoroughly professionalized
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but prior to 100 BC it had always been a
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militia army so he had to raise new
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troops every year trained them and then
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put them in control of political
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generals and they not created problem
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but military reforms instituted fifty
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years before Caesar comes to power
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creates a disciplined army of
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professional soldiers
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you might have had a quote amateur in
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charge of this thing but there were 10
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legions of professional soldiers that's
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that's one point which counts for
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Caesars success the other point I think
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is that you can always be a great
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general if you're not fighting against
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anyone and in the case of the armies of
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Gaul they really weren't significant or
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maizes Gaul is not a unified nation with
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a national army it's a conglomeration of
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individual tribal armies who lack
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discipline and cohesion the fundamental
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problem with Gaul is that I was
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essentially an area of 15 to 20 million
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people lots of different ethnic groups
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they fought one another for generations
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and they never developed a sophisticated
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military capabilities still conquering
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Gaul is more difficult than Caesar
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anticipates
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it couldn't just defeat one army win a
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battle and Gaul was yours
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you had to defeat hundreds of little
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armies
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Cesar faces each new garlic army with
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growing ruthlessness
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CAES we carried out some horrendous
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slaughters as a typical Roman brutality
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of making the case that you know you see
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the Roman friendship or Roman terror
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Ceaser's really was a reign of terror
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he destroyed entire villages killed
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everyone in them and then he went on to
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the next one absolutely brutal and
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inevitably over a period of six years
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what happened was basically Romans
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control end goal was pretty much
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established but underneath it all was a
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simmering spirit of hatred for the
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Romans and spirit of revolt just looking
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for a leader to spark it enter verson
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Jetix a charismatic Golic general like
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caesar he's also on a mission to finally
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unite the hundreds of tribes of his
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homeland against Caesar
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verson Jetix is a worthy adversary to
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Caesar as a younger man he trained with
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and fought alongside the Roman legion
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Merson genrich's was actually a cavalry
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man and Caesar's army early in the
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Gallic Wars so he knows how the Roman
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army worked he knows its strengths he
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knows its weaknesses he is the right guy
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at the right time to take on Caesar
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verson Jett uruk's took it into his head
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that perhaps this was the right time
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that the goal that probably finally had
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it not this tribe or that tribe but
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everyone and that if he could provoke a
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spark when an attack on the Romans that
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was successful what might happen is for
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the first time all of the main tribes of
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Gaul would assemble together and and
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resist Roman rule defeat Caesar and
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drive the Romans out and that's what he
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had in mind
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his plan to provoke Caesar succeeds
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vercingetorix marches more than 70,000
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soldiers into the Roman town of Orleans
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and gives Caesar a taste of his own
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medicine and he fell upon it like a lion
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upon a rabbit ah and burnt the town and
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massacred had murdered everybody the
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slaughter more than 5000 men women and
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children
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vercingetorix delivers a clear message
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to Caesar
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the Gauls will no longer stand for the
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Roman generals brutality this was the
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spark of revolt there was some signal
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event that would galvanize all of Goyal
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against the Rome and that's what he
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tried to do is you know fairly good
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strategic thinker and it worked there
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was no turning back for verson Jetix now
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the revolution has begun and he and
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Caesar are on a collision course
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but verson generation has the momentum
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he's scoring more victories he has a
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massive army behind him and he's using
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it well suddenly this guy is unstoppable
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despite outnumbering the Romans verson
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Jetix knows that his large but fairly
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disorganized force will lose a direct
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all-out battle against caesar's highly
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trained professional army so his
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strategy is to strike it Caesars forces
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in small bursts of guerrilla style
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combat until he inflicts so much damage
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the Romans are forced to retreat to
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Italy
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where´s and jeddaks has a policy just to
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keep harassing the Romans keeping them
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away from food generally giving Caesar a
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headache to further keep the Roman
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troops off the balance verse and Jetix
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does something that will reverberate
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through all of the military history he
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convinces the Gauls to torch their own
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towns crops and countryside it's a
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strategy now known as scorched earth
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burn everything burn the towns burn them
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Hamlet's burn the fields everything in
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other words leave nothing upon which the
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Roman army can look and survive in
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August of 52 BC after implementing his
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scorched earth policy
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vercingetorix leads a small Gallic
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ambush force against the Romans near
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the Gauls favorite weapon is the
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broadsword made of iron these heavy
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blades are designed to smash down with
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brute force the Roman soldier wields a
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Gladius 26 inches long two and a half
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inches wide the Gladius is made of
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razor-sharp steel and is used as a
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stabbing weapon after fighting for
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several hours at Dijon verson jet uruk's
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in true hit-and-run style retreats and
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pulls his horse back the Gauls
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strategy appears to be successful from
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Dijon Caesar begins moving toward the
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Italian border verson jetter exchange
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for reaching Rome and replenishing his
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forces he moves his army down to block
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Caesars goal going to Italy okay
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it really arrives too late Caesar is
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already south of where he comes
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so he's behind Caesar he's not in front
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of him and he tries to go into the
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attack the Romans turn around there's a
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skirmish there there's a skirmish then
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the Romans break it off at that point
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when Christian Jetix does as he says
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getting tough to feed the army out here
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I'm going to redraw back into my main
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supply base alright and hopefully you
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know Caesar we're all we're done for the
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season Caesar will go south and we'll
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finish this next year this proves to be
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a colossal mistake calculating that
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Caesar will retreat to Rome verson jet
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uruk's begins to march his army back to
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its base at Alesia a fortified hilltop
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city but Caesar isn't going home
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he's going after verson Jetix
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and what seizure does is instead of
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running FanDuel he whirls around on him
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kills its rearguard and begin to chase
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him back to Alessia as Caesar attacks
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the Gallic rearguard first and jet
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uruk's and the rest of the Gauls escape
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to their small walled city of Alesia
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within days all of Caesars 50,000
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reinforcements surround the city I mean
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they just kept coming and coming a total
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of ten Roman legions suddenly surrounded
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for some generals
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he must have said to himself what the
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hell have I gotten myself into here
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verse and jet uruk's had great success
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leading his guerrilla war against Caesar
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but now he's trapped and the small
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advantage the Gauls held has completely
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evaporated this is caesar's kind of
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battle and he's about to conduct one of
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the most fantastic siege operations the
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ancient world has ever seen
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52 BC the city of Alicia the Roman
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military commander Julius Caesar and
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more than 50,000 Roman soldiers have
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trapped 70,000 Gauls and their
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revolutionary leader verson Jett uruk's
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inside the city Alessi is so important
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because it's a big final Cataclysm it's
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a last shot
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militarily at stopping the Roman control
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of all of goal
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Alicia is the modern-day city of Elysee
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st. reign located in what is now France
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the city is about five miles in
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circumference likely surrounded by a
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small wall about six feet high home to
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about 10,000 men women and children
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Alicia sits on a small hill some 1500
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feet above a valley through the valley
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run two small rivers a ring of hills
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surround the city it's well protected
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giving the Gauls a strong defensive
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position nonetheless Cesar decides to
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lay siege to Alesia a military campaign
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unlike any other in history the siege
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works created by by Caesar are just
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ingenious and I can't find anyone or any
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source to say that the his siege
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techniques that he used there had been
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used before Caesar's army possesses the
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most sophisticated siege technology of
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the age they are equipped with a
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catapult called Annanagar known as the
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wild ass for its kick it's capable of
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launching a hundred pound projectile 400
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yards the Romans also use the ballista
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Latin for stone thrower the ballista
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fires LED shot nearly 100 yards each
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Roman legion is equipped with 30 of
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these but siege means more than just
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attacking with powerful high-tech
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weapons and Caesar knows that the right
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tactical move at Alesia isn't an all-out
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garage instead Cesar believes that to
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win this battle he shouldn't try to
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drive the Gauls out he should starve
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them in Cesar decides to build a 10-mile
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long wall around elesia to imprison the
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Gauls within their own City
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what verson Jetix thought would be a
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safe haven turns out to be a deathtrap
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first Caesars soldiers dig a trench 20
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feet deep and 20 feet wide
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next they dig another trench 15 feet
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wide 8 feet deep that can be flooded
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with water then another dry pit and
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finally work begins on a wall 12 feet
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high
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complete with watchtowers every 80 yards
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they call it circum fallacious we put up
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a wall around the city it's essentially
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putting tens of thousands of people in
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prison the purpose of that was of course
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to make sure that no one in the city
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could break out they could get outside
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their own walls but only to be trapped
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between a killing ground between the
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Roman wooden wall and their will that's
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the first thing this is not the first
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time Caesar has shown himself to be a
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master of Technology three years earlier
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in 55 BC four hundred thousand Germans
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were looking for a new homeland and
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crossed the Rhine River to settle in
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Gaul
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Caesar immediately delivered a brutal
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message he sent 50,000 of his troops to
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the Rhine River with orders to slaughter
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the Germans
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what he does next was both horrific
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technologically astounding
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Caeser foreshadowed his engineering
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prowess they will eventually show at
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Alessia he built a 400 foot long 40 foot
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wide suspension bridge over the rhine
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river so that he could chase them back
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to germany and hunt them down once
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across the river caesar brutally and
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mercilessly ravaged the countryside four
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hundred thirty thousand people men women
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children no survivors in a deliberately
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calculated act of political butchery
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designed to send a clear message to
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another people
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brutality aside Caesars spanning of the
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Rhine stands as a remarkable engineering
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achievement of the ancient world
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he built the entire bridge in ten days
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it was incredible I mean he built it was
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post and beams and cabling and the
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reason he built it was to say to the
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Germans look the Rhine isn't a barrier
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we could come and get you anytime we
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want
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after the butchery Cesar headed back to
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Gaul and immediately destroyed the
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bridge
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at Alicia Cesar uses the same Roman
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technological superiority to trap the
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Gauls inside the city the gawak general
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verson Jetix watches his Caesars wall
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rises up around him
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the 12-foot high wall is built partially
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from the earth dug out of the trenches
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the walls are topped with wooden
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ramparts and wooden towers rise every 80
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yards on top of all that they put
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sharpened sticks kind of like an early
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version of barbed wire just in case
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someone tries to scale the thing and
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except for a couple of areas like places
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of natural barriers this wall goes
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completely around the city it's a race
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against time
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once Caesar completes the wall nearly
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ten miles in circumference it will be
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impenetrable trapping the entire
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population of the city of Alesia some
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10,000 men women and children as well as
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the new tenants the 70,000 strong Golic
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fighting force
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Vercingetorix does have some beef from
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corn stored up at Alessia but it's not
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gonna last forever Caesars men could go
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and try to steal some or buy some
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supplies but that's easier said than
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done
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don't forget varus and Jetix had burnt a
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lot of it during the scorched earth
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campaign verson jet uruk's knows that
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the winner of this battle will be the
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one who is able to stave off starvation
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so he decides his only hope is to try to
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stop construction of the wall and stop
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the Romans from gathering food if he can
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outlast Caesar in the city okay
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sooner or later the Roman army would
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find it very hard to gather supplies and
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it too would wither on the vine what he
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had to do is he had to keep attacking
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the Roman army to prevent it for
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foraging from supplies so verson Jetix
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resorts to his old tactics hit and run
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he sends several thousand of his cavalry
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to harass Caesars construction workers
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and foragers
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vercingetorix gets away with this a few
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times but finally during one of these
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attacks
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Cesar launches a counter-attack we're
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not exactly sure how many cavalry Caesar
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had but I would imagine about five or
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six thousand Roman cavalry and three to
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four thousand mercenary cavalry a
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skirmish breaks out between Caesars wall
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and Alicia the Roman cavalry gained the
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advantage and the Gauls retreat but
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verson jet uruk's orders alesia's gates
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closed to protect the Gauls already
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inside very very heavy Gallic losses
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guys off their horses trying to
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basically claw their way back into the
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city verse and jet Oryx has sentenced
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his men to death
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52 BC the siege of Alesia sees its first
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bloodshed a Calvary skirmish has a
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deadly end for the Gauls despite winning
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the schools Cesar decides to up the ante
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in terms of the siege works he orders
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more trenches to be dug anti-personnel
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devices to be installed and death traps
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to be built booby traps with huge
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sharpened wooden spikes called chippie
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are planted at the bottom of the
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trenches
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iron barbs called stimuli are spread out
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in front of the walls to puncture
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soldiers feet and horse hooves flooded
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moats were around were there trees
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knocked down to create obstacles and
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covering it all would be whatever field
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guns they had and and arrows archer fire
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sling of fire missiles they could
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literally she'd fire into his impact
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zone after only five weeks the 10 mile
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walled equipped with pitfalls obstacles
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and anti-personnel devices is nearly
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complete the Golic general verson jet
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uruk's is forced to take a bold gamble
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he sends his entire 15,000 strong
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cavalry force to ride across gaul and
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recruit help from other gallop tribes
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well this seems to be a smart move think
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about this for a minute he has had
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pretty good success just snipping at
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Caesar harassing him not letting him get
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anywhere not allowing him to gather food
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but he's giving all of that up and he
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says no pun intended send in the cavalry
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verse and jetter exchanges his tactical
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design and allows the Romans in essence
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to build a siege works and feed their
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own the decision to go for help rather
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than continuing to try to disrupt the
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foragers and construction workers is a
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critical military decision if the
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cavalry is caught and the other tribes
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don't respond verson jet uruk's and his
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army are doomed
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now without his cavalry to send forth to
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harass the Roman army they can build the
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siege works at their leisure which they
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do more important than that is they now
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can forage freely and what Caesar
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understands is clearly what does he say
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he orders his commissariat to make sure
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you collect a 30-day supply agree still
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Caesar knows that if the Gallic cavalry
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does come back with reinforcements it
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can spell defeat for the Romans to
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defend against this Cesar decides to
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build another wall about 400 yards away
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from the first
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Cesar's first wall keeps verson jet
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uruk's in his second wall will keep the
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reinforcements armies out but it will
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also contain 50,000 Roman soldiers who
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must camp in between the two walls
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outside this wall of circumcision you
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construct a second wall called contra
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volition latin contra against and this
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wall ran 20 miles so you have a wall
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inside a wall in a city in the middle
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kind of like a looking at from the top
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down kind of looking at a layer cake now
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with no cavalry to Harris them the
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Romans have no difficulty building the
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second wall the wall was seamless except
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for a small section at the base of Mount
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inria near where two small rivers run
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through the valley the wall construction
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coming to an end everyone starts
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realizing that the thing that's going to
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win or lose this thing is food Caesar
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knows that once the rest of the Gauls
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show up it won't be able to send us guys
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foraging anymore meanwhile inside the
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city fierce Ingenix personally takes
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control of the beef and corn rations
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around seven weeks into the siege
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supplies inside the city are low they
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are subsisting on whatever food had been
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stored before the siege water for close
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to 100,000 women children and garlic
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soldiers likely comes from the small
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rivers or wells there's a story about
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one of verson Jetix astraios saying to
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him let's just eat the dead soldiers and
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the citizens of the town we could live a
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long time like that this would have been
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the first example of cannibalism it
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won't be the last
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think of the Donner Party in our own
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history you know the old history books
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always call the Gauls barbarians but
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they obviously had some humanity
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Vercingetorix didn't allow this
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verse and jet uruk's knows there are too
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many hungry mouths to feed he devises a
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plan that he hopes will save the lives
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of some of the women and children
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what he did is he sent sent them off to
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the Roman wall essentially saying look
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let these people go there's no point to
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this or actually take them in his slaves
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Caesar rejects the offer his own men are
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on the brink of starvation because the
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land around Elisha has been left barren
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by verson Jetix is scorched Earth's
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strategy he has little sympathy for the
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00:26:20,858 --> 00:26:26,128
desperate garlic women and children who
546
00:26:22,929 --> 00:26:26,129
must return to Elisha
547
00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:34,069
but verson jet uruk's doesn't want them
548
00:26:30,410 --> 00:26:35,540
back either having gotten rid of this
549
00:26:34,069 --> 00:26:37,519
live number of people that he no longer
550
00:26:35,539 --> 00:26:39,798
had to feed that verse and jeddaks
551
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:41,808
himself refused to allow them back in
552
00:26:39,798 --> 00:26:43,220
the city walls so that the women and
553
00:26:41,808 --> 00:26:44,750
children live hundreds of women and
554
00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:46,970
children were trapped between the outer
555
00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:48,380
city wall in the inner Roman wall where
556
00:26:46,970 --> 00:26:52,850
they were allowed simply to die of
557
00:26:48,380 --> 00:26:55,000
starvation some 3,000 women and children
558
00:26:52,849 --> 00:26:57,558
are trapped inside the no-man's land
559
00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:02,058
pawns in the struggle of wills between
560
00:26:57,558 --> 00:27:03,918
verse and Jetix and Caesar all these
561
00:27:02,058 --> 00:27:06,079
pathetic soul is just languishing this
562
00:27:03,919 --> 00:27:07,490
kind of limbo they're literally caught
563
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:10,720
in the middle of this fight
564
00:27:07,490 --> 00:27:10,720
no one wants them
565
00:27:12,569 --> 00:27:19,889
but in this horrible test of wills
566
00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:22,829
verson jet uruk's weakens first finally
567
00:27:19,890 --> 00:27:26,130
the gates to alicia open and the
568
00:27:22,829 --> 00:27:29,179
townspeople re-enter caesar wins the
569
00:27:26,130 --> 00:27:32,400
battle of wills now the garlic leader
570
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:35,400
vercingetorix doesn't get to transform
571
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:38,790
his headache into Caesars and Caesar
572
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:42,509
gets to remind people of just what kind
573
00:27:38,789 --> 00:27:45,509
of man they're dealing with the outlook
574
00:27:42,509 --> 00:27:49,019
for the Gauls is bleak but then three
575
00:27:45,509 --> 00:27:53,809
days later on the horizon a Golic relief
576
00:27:49,019 --> 00:27:53,809
army some 60,000 strong appears
577
00:27:55,059 --> 00:28:00,450
they are led by cominis and old
578
00:27:57,369 --> 00:28:00,449
acquaintances of Caesars
579
00:28:02,289 --> 00:28:07,369
communists had been an ally the Caesar
580
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,980
early on the Gallic wars Barisan Jetix
581
00:28:07,369 --> 00:28:13,159
had actually fought for Caesar also so
582
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:15,490
it was a real betrayal for Caesar to
583
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:18,170
have these guys coming against him
584
00:28:15,490 --> 00:28:21,609
communist wastes no time letting Caesar
585
00:28:18,170 --> 00:28:21,610
know he has arrived
586
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:25,519
for the first time at the siege of
587
00:28:25,009 --> 00:28:28,210
Alesia
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00:28:25,519 --> 00:28:31,400
Caesar looks like he might be in trouble
589
00:28:28,210 --> 00:28:35,319
60000 garlic soldiers led by a man named
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00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,320
communism have come to the rescue
591
00:28:36,140 --> 00:28:41,210
they're here to help for some Jetix who
592
00:28:38,599 --> 00:28:45,099
is trapped inside the city with tens of
593
00:28:41,210 --> 00:28:45,100
thousands of civilians and soldiers
594
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:50,720
communists immediately goes on the
595
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,720
offensive
596
00:28:54,009 --> 00:29:00,359
he leads his infantry and attacks the
597
00:28:56,230 --> 00:29:00,360
Roman soldiers stationed on the outside
598
00:29:01,250 --> 00:29:05,039
Gulzar amazingly organized for a bunch
599
00:29:03,779 --> 00:29:07,529
of tribes that hadn't fought together
600
00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:09,059
until recently they had infantry mixed
601
00:29:07,529 --> 00:29:12,289
in with the cavalry and covered the
602
00:29:09,059 --> 00:29:12,289
whole thing with archers and slingers
603
00:29:15,349 --> 00:29:21,000
Caesar has no choice but to launch 5,000
604
00:29:18,690 --> 00:29:23,970
cavalry to defend the wall but they ride
605
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,190
into a hail of arrows
606
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,990
just when it seems the Roman defenses
607
00:29:26,190 --> 00:29:30,340
will collapse Caesar sends in
608
00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:32,329
reinforcements
609
00:29:30,339 --> 00:29:35,689
you
610
00:29:32,329 --> 00:29:39,349
his timing is perfect and the fresh
611
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:40,850
troops push the Gauls back despite the
612
00:29:39,349 --> 00:29:43,309
incredible difference in numbers
613
00:29:40,849 --> 00:29:46,159
Caesar pushes the Gauls back all the way
614
00:29:43,309 --> 00:29:47,539
to the hills just massacring the archers
615
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,720
who had been supporting the Gallic
616
00:29:47,539 --> 00:29:52,970
cavalry the fight rages from noon until
617
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:56,350
sunset
618
00:29:52,970 --> 00:29:59,019
the Romy's emerge victorious
619
00:29:56,349 --> 00:30:01,929
the Gauls first assault ends in disgrace
620
00:29:59,019 --> 00:30:04,389
the bow was nearly theirs they had four
621
00:30:01,930 --> 00:30:07,350
times number soldiers and still cannot
622
00:30:04,390 --> 00:30:10,270
defeat Caesar this does not bode well
623
00:30:07,349 --> 00:30:12,939
but verson Jetix is not about to give up
624
00:30:10,269 --> 00:30:14,950
the fight somehow he manages to
625
00:30:12,940 --> 00:30:17,500
coordinate with communists to launch a
626
00:30:14,950 --> 00:30:20,259
nighttime multi-pronged attack against
627
00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,940
the Roman positions we don't know a lot
628
00:30:20,259 --> 00:30:23,349
about how much Communists and worsen
629
00:30:21,940 --> 00:30:25,480
genrich's could communicate with each
630
00:30:23,349 --> 00:30:27,819
other maybe they had spies who could
631
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:31,740
sneak through but in battle I doubt they
632
00:30:27,819 --> 00:30:31,740
could communicate at all it's just chaos
633
00:30:37,509 --> 00:30:43,058
verson Jetix leads a force attempting to
634
00:30:40,089 --> 00:30:45,009
break through the inside wall cominis
635
00:30:43,058 --> 00:30:45,519
and his men attempt to scale the outside
636
00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:48,929
wall
637
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:51,519
a third Golic force also on the outside
638
00:30:48,929 --> 00:30:54,519
tries to break through the outer wall on
639
00:30:51,519 --> 00:30:56,619
the far side of the city the Gauls are
640
00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,879
learning trying different tactics this
641
00:30:56,619 --> 00:30:59,798
time they've got the cover of darkness
642
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,390
on their side and they've got ladders
643
00:30:59,798 --> 00:31:03,389
and wall hooks to scale the walls
644
00:31:05,009 --> 00:31:10,179
unfortunately for the Gauls Caesar still
645
00:31:07,630 --> 00:31:12,429
has the upper hand up in the siege tower
646
00:31:10,179 --> 00:31:15,340
he can easily see exactly what the Gauls
647
00:31:12,429 --> 00:31:17,798
are doing with the high ground
648
00:31:15,339 --> 00:31:19,528
Caesars men easily repelled the Gauls
649
00:31:17,798 --> 00:31:21,720
below
650
00:31:19,528 --> 00:31:24,298
they're launching arrows but also just
651
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,159
this huge supply of stones and sharp
652
00:31:24,298 --> 00:31:27,628
sticks nothing sophisticated but I
653
00:31:26,159 --> 00:31:29,460
wouldn't want someone standing 12 feet
654
00:31:27,628 --> 00:31:31,648
over me throwing stones at my head
655
00:31:29,460 --> 00:31:33,298
you're trying to fill in these ditches
656
00:31:31,648 --> 00:31:36,808
and moats and the whole time people are
657
00:31:33,298 --> 00:31:39,148
throwing deadly debris at you in between
658
00:31:36,808 --> 00:31:41,730
the walls verson Jetix is getting
659
00:31:39,148 --> 00:31:44,369
pummeled on the other side of the city
660
00:31:41,730 --> 00:31:47,429
caesar's siege works are doing their job
661
00:31:44,369 --> 00:31:49,829
the little presence that Caesar planted
662
00:31:47,429 --> 00:31:52,820
the anti-personnel devices are really
663
00:31:49,829 --> 00:31:52,819
paying off here
664
00:31:55,049 --> 00:31:59,308
these guys can't take a step without
665
00:31:57,089 --> 00:32:02,659
falling 10 feet onto a huge spike or
666
00:31:59,308 --> 00:32:02,660
getting a hook caught in their legs
667
00:32:02,769 --> 00:32:07,269
Ceaser's brilliantly planned siege of
668
00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:08,640
the city is proving too much for the
669
00:32:07,269 --> 00:32:11,200
Gauls
670
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,509
calmness is being beaten on the outside
671
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,970
first and Jetta Rex is being beaten on
672
00:32:13,509 --> 00:32:18,490
the inside the anti-personnel devices
673
00:32:15,970 --> 00:32:22,000
are killing Gauls right and left and
674
00:32:18,490 --> 00:32:24,490
they both have this constant rain of
675
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,910
Roman throwing spears and arrows coming
676
00:32:24,490 --> 00:32:30,400
down on them by daybreak all the Gallic
677
00:32:27,910 --> 00:32:33,490
forces both inside and outside the walls
678
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,700
are forced to retreat once again
679
00:32:33,490 --> 00:32:40,750
Caesar is successful it's got to be
680
00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:43,150
driving co- Andres and Jetix crazy they
681
00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:45,160
have three times the army yet they're
682
00:32:43,150 --> 00:32:47,259
spending most of their time filling up
683
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,330
ditches and dying at the hands of the
684
00:32:47,259 --> 00:32:52,089
Romans Caesars like a master chess
685
00:32:49,329 --> 00:32:54,039
player by imprisoning Alessia then
686
00:32:52,089 --> 00:32:56,439
building the second wall to repel the
687
00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:59,170
Gauls from the outside he's neutralized
688
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:04,210
numbers advantage to Gauls have absolute
689
00:32:59,170 --> 00:33:06,029
genius five more days pass starvation is
690
00:33:04,210 --> 00:33:08,350
taking its toll on the Gauls
691
00:33:06,029 --> 00:33:11,980
desperately the Gauls try to figure out
692
00:33:08,349 --> 00:33:14,769
how to stop the Romans they were already
693
00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:17,829
beaten back twice but they had to do
694
00:33:14,769 --> 00:33:21,700
something the people inside were beyond
695
00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:23,439
being out of food finally the Gauls
696
00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:25,529
discover the weak spot in the Roman
697
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,360
outer wall near the foot of mount RIA
698
00:33:25,529 --> 00:33:31,149
because of the O's River Caesar couldn't
699
00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:34,019
completely connect his outer wall it's a
700
00:33:31,150 --> 00:33:35,640
gap communist hopes to exploit
701
00:33:34,019 --> 00:33:37,950
so what they do is they sneak under
702
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,780
cover of night to that weak spot tucked
703
00:33:37,950 --> 00:33:42,990
between the two hills and they stay
704
00:33:39,779 --> 00:33:46,160
hidden in the woods at noon the next day
705
00:33:42,990 --> 00:33:46,160
they attack
706
00:33:47,349 --> 00:33:51,639
common is's men flood through the
707
00:33:49,420 --> 00:33:53,940
opening in the wall and ravage the Roman
708
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,940
infantry
709
00:33:59,339 --> 00:34:05,500
had another part of the wall a second
710
00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:07,450
Dalek force attempts to break in the
711
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:09,820
second Golic force begins to overwhelm
712
00:34:07,450 --> 00:34:14,320
the wall the Romans are simply running
713
00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:16,720
out of stuff to throw at them at the
714
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,200
same time Vercingetorix attacks from the
715
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,199
inside
716
00:34:32,260 --> 00:34:38,400
Cesar watches this three-pronged garlic
717
00:34:35,179 --> 00:34:40,410
attack from his siege tower
718
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:43,410
historians like to debate whether Caesar
719
00:34:40,409 --> 00:34:45,659
was really such a great tactician what
720
00:34:43,409 --> 00:34:49,259
he did at that final battle it was like
721
00:34:45,659 --> 00:34:51,629
conducting an orchestra Cesar decides to
722
00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:54,810
commit 3,600 reinforcements to his
723
00:34:51,630 --> 00:34:56,910
defenses at the gap in the wall he
724
00:34:54,809 --> 00:34:58,529
ordered reinforcements cavalry to come
725
00:34:56,909 --> 00:35:00,299
around from the northeast side to help
726
00:34:58,530 --> 00:35:03,210
protect the weak spot but at the same
727
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:04,700
time the Gulf sent another 20,000 troops
728
00:35:03,210 --> 00:35:07,530
into the gap in the wall
729
00:35:04,699 --> 00:35:09,059
but you see 20,000 men isn't going to do
730
00:35:07,530 --> 00:35:11,010
your a lot of good when you're trying to
731
00:35:09,059 --> 00:35:13,110
funnel them through essentially a narrow
732
00:35:11,010 --> 00:35:14,760
gap between two rivers while you're
733
00:35:13,110 --> 00:35:16,680
being opposed on both sides by legion
734
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:20,940
camps and in the front by a ditch in a
735
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:23,190
wall Cesar watches as the Gaul switched
736
00:35:20,940 --> 00:35:26,730
tactics if they can't go through the
737
00:35:23,190 --> 00:35:28,710
wall they will tear it down by now
738
00:35:26,730 --> 00:35:30,929
they're at the wall and they're just
739
00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:34,139
tearing at these with these mural hooks
740
00:35:30,929 --> 00:35:36,139
they're iron hooks designed for tearing
741
00:35:34,139 --> 00:35:38,159
down the walls of a besieged town
742
00:35:36,139 --> 00:35:40,079
everything's kind of backwards because
743
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:42,420
of Caesars walls usually it's the
744
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:46,230
conquering force that's using mural
745
00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:48,980
hooks not the defenders the battle rages
746
00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:48,980
on all fronts
747
00:36:08,088 --> 00:36:14,308
Cesar finally takes matters into his own
748
00:36:10,889 --> 00:36:16,699
hands he personally leads 2400 more men
749
00:36:14,309 --> 00:36:16,700
into battle
750
00:36:21,010 --> 00:36:26,090
he takes command of four cohorts of
751
00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:28,970
intra tree himself puts on his famous
752
00:36:26,090 --> 00:36:30,740
red cloak he always thought it important
753
00:36:28,969 --> 00:36:33,139
that troop should see their commander in
754
00:36:30,739 --> 00:36:40,219
battle and leads these four cohorts
755
00:36:33,139 --> 00:36:42,619
right into the fray the Roman line was
756
00:36:40,219 --> 00:36:46,599
ready to break until Caesar arrived at
757
00:36:42,619 --> 00:36:46,599
the last minute with the reinforcements
758
00:36:51,949 --> 00:36:58,239
there is hacking at Gauls with his
759
00:36:54,259 --> 00:36:58,239
Gladius absolutely butchering
760
00:37:04,340 --> 00:37:10,559
there's a big difference between the
761
00:37:07,260 --> 00:37:13,609
commander saying charge and one saying
762
00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:13,608
follow me boys
763
00:37:20,969 --> 00:37:25,269
Pattin wore a red cloak just because of
764
00:37:24,730 --> 00:37:27,519
Caesar
765
00:37:25,269 --> 00:37:29,920
now that Caesars there the Roman legions
766
00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:31,269
put down all these pillow manned
767
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,250
javelins and things that they were
768
00:37:31,269 --> 00:37:35,170
throwing from a distance and they pick
769
00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:43,358
up their swords and they just charged
770
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:46,800
the Gauls Caesar has the momentum and
771
00:37:43,358 --> 00:37:46,799
he's going in for the kill
772
00:37:52,019 --> 00:37:56,940
more than two months into the siege of
773
00:37:54,210 --> 00:37:59,670
Alicia Julius Caesar wearing his famous
774
00:37:56,940 --> 00:38:02,360
red cloak leads his men into battle
775
00:37:59,670 --> 00:38:02,360
against the Gauls
776
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:12,599
and the text say that what was happening
777
00:38:10,619 --> 00:38:14,849
is that the Roman line was ready to
778
00:38:12,599 --> 00:38:17,909
break until Caesar arrived at the last
779
00:38:14,849 --> 00:38:21,119
minute with his four cohorts with the
780
00:38:17,909 --> 00:38:22,619
reinforcements and at the same time you
781
00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:24,119
know increasing Roman morale because
782
00:38:22,619 --> 00:38:28,859
they saw that commander fighting with
783
00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:31,500
them with with the with the red cloak my
784
00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:34,110
evening Caesar has the momentum he
785
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:36,800
chases the Gauls to their camp cuts them
786
00:38:34,110 --> 00:38:36,800
down like animals
787
00:38:54,170 --> 00:39:00,019
despite the impending defeat verson jet
788
00:38:57,210 --> 00:39:00,019
uruk's fights on
789
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:06,670
his strategy of uniting the Garlic
790
00:39:04,869 --> 00:39:09,900
tribes to fight against Roman oppression
791
00:39:06,670 --> 00:39:09,900
has failed
792
00:39:11,269 --> 00:39:16,179
verson Jedrek soon realizes he has lost
793
00:39:20,349 --> 00:39:25,659
the defeat sends the message of kind of
794
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:28,450
despair to the other tribes in the
795
00:39:25,659 --> 00:39:30,279
coalition and after a day or two one by
796
00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:31,989
one as they had done so many times in
797
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:36,010
the past they've been wander back to
798
00:39:31,989 --> 00:39:39,479
their own tribal lands and even verson
799
00:39:36,010 --> 00:39:42,550
Jetix understands that the game is over
800
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:46,269
and he's the one who takes the
801
00:39:42,550 --> 00:39:50,560
initiative and opens negotiations with
802
00:39:46,269 --> 00:39:54,989
the Romans Caesar had made a name for
803
00:39:50,559 --> 00:39:57,549
himself by wiping out entire tribes but
804
00:39:54,989 --> 00:40:00,989
uncharacteristically after this battle
805
00:39:57,550 --> 00:40:04,780
he decides to spare the Golic warriors
806
00:40:00,989 --> 00:40:07,149
Caesar was pretty lenient way out of
807
00:40:04,780 --> 00:40:10,660
character for the guy who is famous for
808
00:40:07,150 --> 00:40:13,000
annihilating whole tribes maybe he
809
00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:16,480
sensed that in order to keep insurgents
810
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,300
down he had to change tactics maybe he
811
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:22,240
even acquired a newfound respect for the
812
00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:24,910
way they had performed in battle but of
813
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:30,329
course for some Jett uruk's had started
814
00:40:24,909 --> 00:40:30,329
this he had to be made an example
815
00:40:33,340 --> 00:40:39,970
October 2nd 52 BC after almost two
816
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:43,690
months of bloodshed verson jet uruk's
817
00:40:39,969 --> 00:40:46,839
finally surrenders first and jet uruk's
818
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puts his best armor on and marches
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through the gate comes right up to
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Caesar and tens of thousands of Romans
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behind him you can imagine the scene
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here's this guy who had dared to
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challenge Caesar coming face to face
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with him
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a valiant warrior but one who has
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committed a basic tactical error
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he had a plan not to take Caesar head on
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but the skirmish cut his communication
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cut his supply lines just harass him at
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every turn he held on to that at times
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when he could have tried to go in for
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the kill but he stayed disciplined then
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he suddenly scrapped the whole idea he
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sends his best fighters to go get help
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help that didn't end up doing much good
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it's fascinating
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he had hung to the original strategy
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right to the point where it was
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succeeding and then for whatever reason
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changes the strategy and it cost him
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dearly while many of the Gauls are freed
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verson Jett uruk's is brought to Rome
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and executed and as the story goes for
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which there's probably not much evidence
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that when that and during one of Caesars
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triumphs he was he was strangled in put
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a full public view more likely he was
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simply executed in a Roman dungeon the
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Romans were not I mean they had no
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problems with public execution but in
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this case they were just well to be rid
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of what was called a firebrand of the
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Gauls the man who afraid that would
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light Gaul on fire
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Cesar spends the winter extinguishing
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the dying embers of the rebellion Rome
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will not have to fight the Gauls for
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another four hundred years one can
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compare Caesar to William Tecumseh
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Sherman of the march through Georgia
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Fame in 1867 he was given the job of
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breaking the resistance of the Indians
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in the West he used the exact same
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tactics scorched earth Massacre removal
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starvation against the Americans that
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Caesar had against the Garlic tribes and
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with the same results he won the
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Americans were settled on reservations
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and became America elesia was a great
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personal victory for Julius Caesar who
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at times was the besieged as well as the
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procedure but the outcome of this battle
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is more than just dramatic material for
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Caesars own writings
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Battle of Alessia in the long run was a
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benefit of the most beneficial things
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that happen to all of Europe because
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what it did is it allowed the thorough
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romanization of an enormous area from
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the Rhine all the way to the Pyrenees
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what today we would call Western Europe
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was was civilized and organized as a
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province of Rome and then became under
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the Empire essentially raw Italy in Rome
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itself it got to a point where the Gauls
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never thought of themselves as anything
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except Romans some say that Caesar's
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campaign was really a reign of terror
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but at Alesia
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he used brilliant tactics to defeat a
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large Golic army that attacked from two
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directions the result was that Caesar
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not only destroyed the Gauls he United
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the land that would become a significant
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part of Western Europe and it all was
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made possible Eltham Utley by the
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brilliance of a Julius Caesar and the
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defeat of verson Jetix at the Battle and
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siege of alessio
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