against the Romans

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against the Romans

All Gaul had risen against the Romans, even the iEdui, the old allies of the oppressors j but Caesar conquered them under Vercingetorix, and besieged them in Alesia. No less than , men were shut up in this town or fort; while Caesar, with , troops, lay before it. The Roman General immediately erected a line of contravallation, extending for four leagues, in order to reduce the place by famine, since its situation on a hill, feet high, and on all Celtic city, amid which have grown the secular pines, displays on its surface, on the banks of the Lison, and on the neighbouring plateau of Amanqay, so large a collection of tombs more than twenty thousand have been counted, that only an awful slaughter, like that MBT which decided the fate of Gaul, can explain their presence in such numbers. All the graves which the Archaeological Society of Besanon has carefully explored since , contain the skeletons of Gaulish warriors the Romans burned their dead in variable numbers, who had been buried with their horses, and sometimes even with their chariots, of which no more remain than the ironwork.M. Castan, who has examined many of them, gives the following account of the contents of one of these restingplaces. Above two skeletons surrounding them weresides abrupt, between the rivers Ope and Operain, rendered an attack impossible. Vercingetorix, after making several furious but unsuccessful sallies, called all the Gauls to arms, and in a short time , men appeared before the place. Caesar had, MBT Shoes Sale in the mean time, completed his line of circumvallation, protecting himself against any attack from without by a breastwork, a ditch with palisadoes, and several rows of pitfalls, to keep MBT Shoes off the dauntless cavalry. These defences enabled him to repel the desperate attack of , Gauls against the , Romans attacked in front and rear. The Gauls were unable to force his lines at any point, and Vercingetorix, reduced to extremity by hunger, was compelled to surrender, without having carried into execution his design of murdering all the MBT Trainers people in the town who were unfit for battle. But the whole tribe of the Mandubii, which had been expelled from the city by the Gauls, and were not allowed by the Romans to pass into the open country, died of famine between the two camps.