The Battle of Alesia (52 B.C.E.)

[jack]

The gauls should've built ANOTHER set of walls around the roman set of walls.

[pckrfan]

What's really impressive about this is how the Gauls seemed to do everything right.

[robertjack]

too bad we don't get this kind of stuff on 'history channel'. just conspiracy theories and pawn stars marathons.

[Grivian]

After this you can understand that Caesars soldiers would follow him everywhere

[SirRyanScarff]

The other positive side of building walls around his army, the roman's couldn't route. There was nowhere for them to run so they had to fight to the death.

[mmaattoouu]

I heard you like forts so I put a fort around your fort so I can siege when I'm sieged.

[MrFishman]

This literally boggled my mind. In literally ANY OTHER SITUATION, under ANY OTHER CONDITIONS, with ANY OTHER COMMANDER, these men would have been dead meat. This was a one in a million battle.

Damn Caesar.

[nmn]

What the actual fuck. That is magic. Caesar was a fucking magician.

[JoseRodriguez-ojsp]

It's amazing how the Romans managed to build two layers of defensive walls in a matter of weeks.

[menarmy]

there should be a movie about this battle

[PbThunder]

shows just how effective the cohort system was in self sustaining.

[Fufflunsify]

This was really interesting. Thank you so much for these videos!

[rpgreseller]

There was a bit more to this battle. Ceasar used trenches lined with spears to great advantage.

[croisaor]

Holy shit that was intense. Great video.

[citylightsish]

You can't build giant walls in rome 2 like that.... :(

[blacktee]

This shit is strategic brilliance on both sides. Incredible.

[billder]

I has been 20 years since I read Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series, one of my favorite historical series ever... I learned much about why Rome still lies at the heart of Western Civilization. She was great at describing battles and tactics, but this video shows the whole process in a condensed fasion. Julius Ceasar is without question one of the great generals of history, certainly Rome's greatest general... a brilliant, hard man. Thanks for producing this excellent video.

[leeboi]

Marc Antony is a legend. It's hard to think how experienced and just generally good at combat the Roman soldiers must have been. Nice video!

[izuxiria]

Asterix anyone? WHAT ALESIA? NEVER HEARD OF IT! DIDN'T HAPPEN!

[adamschneider]

I have been looking for something like this for a very long time. Don't update your graphics, the simplicity makes it easy to follow. History channel had a show like this and used very advanced graphics that distracted from what was important, the information and the thought process behind each move, for this reason it was short lived. The only critical thing I could say is maybe for Caesars forces use different shades of red or a red and brown offset to make different tiers of troops, the X and / worked fine, but what I am saying requires less mental gymnastics for the viewer, and please, please, please include sources in the description, it makes you more credible. Other than that I thoroughly enjoyed this video.


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