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"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain

author:Thomas Bear

55 BC, the fourth year of the Gallic Wars

Germanic

Caesar, still remembering the Germans who had escaped into the forest last year, asked the Gauls to borrow cavalry and travel through present-day Netherlands, Belgium and other regions to the Rhine. Perhaps Rome felt that there was no difference between Germanic people and animals, and Caesar did not talk to them about principles, and directly attacked the Germanic tribes that were ready to surrender, which also made the Germans give up the idea of peace.

Efficient engineering capabilities once again helped Rome, and Caesar built a bridge over the Rhine in just ten days to facilitate the march of the army, probably between present-day Bonn and Cologne. The nearby Germanic people were frightened by such an advanced civilization and hid deep in the forest. Over time, the Germanic tribes slowly surrendered, and the atmosphere of surrender spread, and Caesar's condition was to hand over the hostages. Caesar also knew that the surrendering soldier without fighting was the highest state of war, and successfully alienated the Germans, causing them to beat each other up, and Caesar, who had done bad things, happily destroyed the bridge and left here.

"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain

Britain

The British Isles were a mysterious presence when the map was dark at the time, but Caesar knew that there was a mysterious force on it supporting the Gaulish tribes, and yes, they were the British, the ancestors of the Three-Meow Legion. Caesar decided to bring the British Isles into Roman territory, and after several reconnaissance boats, Caesar led the Seventh and Twelfth Legions across the Strait of Dover, which British Prime Minister Churchill considered to be the historical starting point of the British Empire.

"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain

As soon as Caesar's vanguard came ashore, the ambush troops there dropped arrows and stones, and the Roman legions had to retreat to the sea, but they had already invented the technology of using siege weapons on ships, and the barbarians on the island saw the power of technology. The Roman legions landed successfully, but the ships did not know whether it was the tofu slag project or the waves were too fierce, they were all destroyed, and the food was not enough, so that the Roman army suddenly lost its direction. Fortunately, Caesar was still very calm, and the Romans with extraordinary ability to build repaired 68 ships in an instant. The British barbarians on the island were certainly not rivals of the Roman infantry, and after several repeated engagements, the British barbarians surrendered their hostages for peace, but Caesar's stated goal was not accomplished, and he only defeated his opponents at present, not occupied the land. Before winter came, Caesar retreated safely to Gaul, and the Romans were very happy to learn that Caesar had lit a new map.

"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain

Rome

Crassus, who had been given the governorship of the East, decided to attack the Parthian Empire in the east, and Caesar, as Crassus's long-time horseman and son, supported the most suitable general, Crassus's son, and asked him to select 1,000 cavalry. It was also at this time that Caesar's mother, Aurelia, died, and the mother of the Aurelia and Gracchus brothers called the model of the Roman woman, the glorious mother of Rome. Caesar in Rome to do image engineering, in his own residence near the "Subra" near the temple, build roads, open gladiatorial competitions, because Crassus has decided to go on the expedition, so his apparent economic resources have been cut off, but really did not understand, in the poverty alleviation key area of Gaul Caesar on the side of the war, how to get so much money. Later scholars have judged that Caesar opened a trade route in Gaul and gained wealth by not collecting taxes or plundering.

"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain
"The Story of the Romans 39" Gallic Battle Notes: Expedition to Britain

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