
97 - Gallic Wars 7: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt
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Caesar faces the Gallic Grande Armée through fire and snow, in part 7, the climax of our series on Caesar’s masterwork of psychology, strategy, and propaganda: On the Gallic War (De Bello Gallico).
This is a world-history making story (the conquest of what’s now modern France), told by a world-history making storyteller.
Caesar entered Gaul as a mere politician. He returned 9 years later as a conqueror - and an enemy of the state. He tells how it all happened with his own pen.
In this episode:
- Slaughterings begin at Cenabum
- The Incendiary Tactics of Vercingetorix
- Rebellion amongst Roman Allies
- Caesar loses Gregovia…
- …but clinches victory at Alesia
- Vercingetorix falls, sealing the fate of Gaul
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