Gallic Wars 7: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt
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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