Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC (Essential Histories)

✍ Scribed by K. M. Gilliver

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 98
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on Caesar's own writings, this book offers an eye-witness account of the Gallic Wars in the context of the collapse of the Roman republic and its descent into civil war. Caesar's bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the province of Gaul - modern France.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 6
Chronology......Page 9
Background to war......Page 11
The Romans......Page 18
Gauls, Britons and Germans......Page 21
Gallic flair and Roman discipline......Page 27
Outbreak......Page 31
Battle against the Helvetii......Page 35
57 BC Conquest of the east......Page 38
Battle against the Nervii......Page 41
56 BC Naval warfare and the conquest of the west......Page 43
Normandy and Aquitania......Page 44
55 BC Publicity stunts......Page 47
Cotta and Sabinus......Page 51
53 BC......Page 52
52 BC The great revolt......Page 53
Avaricum......Page 54
Artillery......Page 56
Alesia......Page 60
Uxellodunum......Page 62
Portrait of a soldier......Page 68
P.Sextius Baculus......Page 69
The world around war......Page 71
Portrait of a civilian......Page 81
How the war ended......Page 83
Conclusion and consequences......Page 90
Further reading......Page 94
Index......Page 95