“The Gauls fought in war bands that were fragile… They were almost as much in competition with each other for glory as… with the foe… Roman discipline, on the other hand, demanded doggedness… and a good organization… the exhausting method of powerful strokes employed by the Gauls, albeit red-blooded and strongly limbed, would not last long against the… less fatiguing method of swordplay utilizing the (skillful thrust of the Roman soldier)”. Soon, his patient, well-drilled troops carried the day: Nic Fields says in his book 'Julius Caesar' that the general grabbed a shield, stood amongst his troops, and directed the battle while embedded within it. One example is when he’d courageously rallied troops marching along the ancient road at the Sabis river (the Sambre).įerocious tribesmen had burst out of the woods on either side and rushed his legionnaires in a mass ambush. Venturing as far as Britain, his main stomping ground was northern Italy and Gaul, a territory spanning a little beyond the borders of modern France, where he’d fought many a brave battle.
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