Vercingetorix (52 to 50 B.C.E.) 

I'm sorry to point it out, but the chronologically messed up quotes felt a bit uncomfortable to read.

Ah, who can forget the time Caesar famously cast hundreds of tons of dye into the Rubicon river, turning it bright yellow

@@TheNodrokov i started laughing like a Damm maniac thank you

Didn't he get to choose his legates? Pretty sure he did.. and that makes this all the funnier xD

@@chimeforest yes

Caesar would have built a third wall, but he wasn't sure Tribune Aquila would allow it.

@@Falor5151 😂😂😂

@@tituslabienus01 Build the wall and make the Gauls pay for it.

That’s beautiful

@@robertjarman3703 but first you've got to ask Trubune Aquila if the gauls should pay

Gallic peasant: Oh, right yes. Umm... What's a punic?

The teevee taught you to despise peasants?

Fabian tactics are useful only when your on home terrain. Questinable at best when you dont have the home advantage.

@@ilkkarautio2449 Well of course,.You have to have food and supply to use it,.Captain obvious

@@matthewmatt5285 Not a captain yet. Im a leutenant. And some points are good no matter how simple.

yea wars remained unchanged in Europe up to WW2 even, summer was the favorite period to fight

@@Iason29 Humans: Hay, let's fight during the Summer! *Humans fight during the Summer* Humans: Oh, Sh*t! Winter is coming. Would it be great, if we could fight all year round? Also Humans: *Starts Global worming*

@Leif H The Earth can typically recover the damage done to the ozone by its own geological rumblings. We however, are pumping far too much into the atmosphere and are punching holes in the ozone, allowing heat to get trapped at a far higher rate. This is what anyone means when they say we're 'causing global warming'. What they mean is we're accelerating and intensifying it.

Some people assume because Earth naturally produces a lot of CO2 that no amount of CO2 can ever possibly be too much and we can spew as much CO2 and other greenhouse gases with 0 repercussions whatsoever. When you say it like that, it really makes them sound very silly to think that they can do as they please with no repercussions to their actions, but that's not even the half of it. So, they say nature will take care of it? Well, have you forgotten that humans have been eroding nature away with cities, and that humans deforest constantly? What about the Amazon rainforest which is also actively being deforested? So we can apparently just deforest the world, uproot much of the vegetation and turn it into concrete, we can fuck the oceans by dumping our sewage and pollutants in the rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans along with other general trash, we can burn as much fossil fuel and emit as much CO2 as we want, and the "nature" that we've been destroying will take care of it.... Yeahh... hard to say "nature took care of it before, nature will take care of it again" when you've reduced nature by (just giving an arbitrary number) over half, while adding more of the pollutants to the air in addition to that.

You know to the 3 provinces he was supposed to be running...

Its a surprisingly popular fetish

did someone say box killing fetish ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL! Sorry this just happens sometime-KIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL!

Is this a dream? It's gotta be a dream, right?

Best comment i have seen today, thank you sir!

That's because Real History is actually far more epic than even the best adventure novel or Hollywood movie

@@Laotzu.Goldbug right...A combination of skill, bravery, intelligence, and a little luck made caesar as the most interesting person in written history.

@@sethtate2079 He was also a power-hungry megalomaniac who committed untold amounts of war crimes and almost single-handedly turned the Roman Republic into an autocratic authoritarian state.

​@@TheCaptainZodo Every other leader at the time committed war crimes as well lol. Did you miss the part where the Gauls went from town to town killing Roman civilians and traders? War fucking sucks and a lot of innocent people die, that's why we should be thankful we live in an era where that isn't *quite* as common place. Not defending Caesar either, but to paint him as the sole source of evil is a bit one sided. Also, the guy conquered a pretty significant portion of the known world. Like it or not, he was a strategic genius.

@@dynamicpaintball he didn't paint him as the sole source of evil, just evil. Why straw man?

He who knows when to fight and when not to will always be victorious. -Sun Tzu Yeah vercingetorix made a mistake by fighting.

chess is the same way. took me a long time to comprehend that one. no mistakes means I at least draw right? no...

@@timothydelacy9571 so u would not fight If ur country was being over run by genocidal tyrants?

@@timothydelacy9571 He didn't so much make a mistake by fighting, he made a mistake by being impatient. Patience on the part of the Gauls would've gone a very long way. Attacking the two legions guarding the food supply would've been a big help too.

Exactly. Every single battle has a winner and a loser and so many factors are at play. Even the greatest Generals have been in near death situations due to their own folly of just nature of battle. It's how life works. Historia Civils last video on Alexander the Greats first campaigns in his first battle as leader he was stabbed by a spear in the back of the head and fell unconscious via concussion. Caesar admitted to being very lucky. The Parthians that killed Marcus Crassus had no idea they were just about to destroy a 40'00 strong army with only 10'00 archers. So many things can affect a battle. Vercinjetorixs mistake it looks like was climbing the hill and allowing himself to get surrounded. But it's been over 2000 years it's easy to claim it was a mistake but while it was happening there could have been so many factors at play and going into your base would have been the best bet. Maybe they feared Caesar had hidden reinforcements. Infact id say the mistake was the fault of whoever decided to build their fortress keep on a big hill with hard access to resupply. And that could have happened 100 years before Vercingetorix even inherited it. Some Gaulic generals lost battles because their fellow Aristocratic Gaulic Elites fighting along side the Gaulic King in question refused to fight unless the king dismounted his horse and fight on foot too. To maintain equality. But doing so robbed the King of his ability to command and pay orders and navigate the war and battles of entire wars were lost of this mistake and had subsequent genocides happen to the losing sides. Not in this particular war but in Roman/Gaul history in general. Vercingetorix was a badass though. Him and Decabaleus from the future. Who's name translates to "The Strength of Ten Men" who was a very savvy operator that gave the best Roman Emperor, Trajan, a difficult time and his predecessors hell. Decabelus would ask the Romans for money to defend his client kingdom against invaders and when the Romans paid he would use the funds to build walls on the Roman side of his border. To make it harder for Romans to invade. And many Romans died trying to climb those walls paid for with Roman money by the time Trajan came about.

Rome had a civil war with soldiers of the same training, in the end its not all about building but imagination

Vercingetorix: We will build a Wall, and make the Romans pay for it! Caeser: That's a great idea! Vercingetorix: What? Caeser: What?

"I mean that would work if we wouldnt sleep in till noon so often."

@@fristnamelastname5549 Caesar: Funny, that’s what I was about to say about you Gauls...

@@Iason29 This is Rome "a civil war" is one hell of an understatement.

Thought the exact same thing when he mentioned them taking the hills

Cough cough siege equipments cough cough ballistas cough cough...

Dude, go get that cough checked out.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Duhya this is getting out of hand! Now there are two of us!

These MS paint squares deserve an Oscar.

Caesar*

He's a teaser.

never thought Id get this emotional towards squares

wrg

It's easy to forget the sheer size of some of these armies. It's obviously still impressive to build a stone wall that quickly, but it's much easier when you have 30,000+ people helping.

​@@zifny3035It's also worthwhile to point out for those in the U.S that Europe is a comparatively much more compact continent than North America so the distances make a little more sense that they made it that quickly if they were traveling with haste

@@thatguythatdoesstuff5784the sheer size of this country goes so under appreciated. I drive the distance of a somewhat small European country every day for work, and don’t need to know any other language

​​@@PointnShootMoviesi drive 5min in my country, i cross into another linguistic region with another culture.

So fortnite is essentially a roman warfare, I see

I guess you could say they were a handful?

someone who understands finally

Thank you. And more important even than that was the horrific way the Gauls/Celts invaded western Europe as they took over vast areas of land in great numbers supposedly because of the "bad climate" where they use to live.

@Jack McCalla ok bro cool bro ancient warfare much bro?

@Jack McCalla Cool story bro.

haha :D

I'm sorry I know this was 2 years ago but I don't get the joke

@@kerriehowe8844 By speaking up, the guy volunteered himself.

@@tremedar OK thanks I don't know why i didn't get it it went right over my head

@@kerriehowe8844 the gaul leader asked for 10000 volunteers to sneak inside the fortified town and help defending it

They're making a fucking playmobile movie now too

Need to send in some blue squares in to put a halt to all that senseless violence

@@wilsonstone935 nah, send in the blue rectangular elephants

Why compare him to something so degenerate, this is better than documentaries with pictures

Wait wut

Those are rookie numbers, this is like the fifth time I watched this video

Manuel Valencia I like to drink and watch these videos under my SPQR flag. Get on my level.

@@louisvalencia5244 that's weak, this has to be my ninth time

@@wyattrox03 your all weak this is my 20th time cause I have 1 thing out of most of you I have no life

*Consul commands

They're playing fortnite dude 😂

@@CC-tl3zs r/ihavereddit

Apparently someone told Caesar about ~ Annex GUL

@@warrenlehmkuhleii8472 Gallic relief army appears Caesar: tag gul tag ita Uxellodunum: This war isn't over yet! Caesar: Alright I've had enough of this.... ~annex gul

MOLESTERMAN 69 you are right. Other than If he was up against Pompey, the rebellion would have been a flawless victory

@@ultra_epic_guy5966 Not even sure . Cesar was saved because he had labienus with him who won when vercingetorix wasn't here . This gave him the second chance he needed to end Vercingetorix .

Caesar, the one guy who could defeat Gaul...

Idunno, Caesar is kind of overrated as a tactician. He just seemed to get lucky a lot of times.

MOLESTERMAN 69 more like protagonist

This is the funniest youtube comment I’ve read, hands down

"When Rome sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing murderers. They're bringing looters. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." -Vercingetorix, 50 B.C.E.

And the sad part is that, that's actually true.

awesome comment have three cookies

vesteel Didnt due them any good, the Romans never gave up, thats why they coquered the world ,of their time.

You monster

At least he died in combat, much nobler than his actual demise. You did him a favor.

CA should have given Rome the cultural ability to hold triumphs, with it, the ability to capture enemy leaders.

*ROMA INVICTA!* Death to the barbarian traitors!

Go play Celtic War Rage of War. Spoiler: You kick Ceasar's ass at Gergovia.

Meanwhile: I AM CONCERNED

Meanwhile: NAH.

And I believe he did so.

@@jisookim6904 I have the high ground !

To what the few at the Senate should reply "Not yet"

Caesar: "I am the Senate" Brutus: "Not yet."

@@merrittanimation7721 But the Senate didn't die, Brutus did.

TP Tallen HACKS

TP Tallen ceasar definitely had cheat codes nothing else can explain his victory at alesia. Unless he had some trolls or machine guns or a helicopter with missiles

YES!

Nope, just sheer Roman determination.

and discipline

@Hubris Yeah, while objectively the likes of Kings & Generals and, even more so, Epic History TV have infinitely better animations to rely on, the abundance of background details sometimes makes it harder to keep track of what's going on. At the same time, this attitude doesn't work quite as well while having to portray army units fighting on the same side but under different commanders.

Thats a good story teller for you. He does his research to find the thrilling story line behind history and knows all he has to do for a cracking video is to do it justice with his narration.

agree about the tone and content but the graphics? really? not even an occasional overview shot showing the real landscape? when it is critical to understand the context (e.g. Gergovia hills etc)-- is that asking too much in this age of easy-to-implement digital imagery?

@@johnfoerster7533if you can do better, I’m sure Civilis will hire you

Lol

I got used to it once i start this series Imagine him as a chad like the one in dovahatty

@@f.boogaloospook2318 based

@@jamiedavies6446 can't wait for libraries to open up again, I haven't been able to rent out books for ages :/ do you know any good digital libraries? There was supposed to be one at b-ok . cc

@@firstname4097 this is very late, but archive . org is pretty good

Livto This has to be one of his best yet. Man, I love this channel.

Psycho Mantis?

I bought a new 4k display just for these squares.

Vercingetorix Victor of a hundred Battles *Caesar:* Well, shit!

Livto And in glorious 60 FPS!!

His solution? "Build a wall"

@@fogareuaquelecaradaportari3386 Or "Meh let's go burn some villages"

>"The Assassination of Julius Caesar" I dunno how he'll get out of this one

It’s from the mobile game plague

Amen to that.

Yeah I have to wonder why he didn't.

BlackDeathViral03 thank you for the explanation. While watching I was thinking that it made no sense, that he shadowed Caesar just to not attack when there was an opening.

There's a good chance he didn't know Caesar's army was out of provisions, and if he had just attacked him at the siege, it would have been just as well to meet him in open combat, and so much for the Fabian strategy.

Tom Sistermans Rude.

Diplomacy Lvl 100/100

When you roll a Nat 1 on your diplomacy check.

Speech increased to 100.

romans of that era didn't have punctuation or spaces between their words... or telegraphs

Splash splash I was taking abbath

Hello, fellow Abbath profile pic.

All the Romans on the left look like Caesar's clones.

Lionel Royer's painting is awesome for sure, but it's actually inaccurate - mainly the armor of the Romans was not of the correct period.

"Semi-professional couch youtube surfer" I'm pretty sure this right here is why we can't have nice things....

@@FluffyKedderang that raised my eyebrow too.

Just another commenter true.

Though the narrator's love letter to Vercingetorix at the end was a bit cringe.

I know right

Or "Rome marched on Caesar

It's out!

It's not a rigid doctrine.

I think Napoleon is their greatest hero ..... O wait .... heh :)

u forget Napoleon

@@lamamigateau8029 Napoleon ended up surrendering. Twice I think even heh.

@D Flatt , @LA MAMI Gateau , @D Flatt Napoleon may have surrendered at some point(s), but I would argue that he isn't famous for surrendering.

@@Bardockfan150 He is France's greatest hero (in many people's opinion) and he still surrendered. Personally I would say Charles Martel was France's greatest hero. He basically saved Western civilization at the battle of Poitiers.

Nobody Important his videos are the only ones that actively have more views than subs

Because it gather respectable people around respectable topics

We're not loyal. At least I certainly am not. But every single video of his seems better than the last, while the last was already the best video on youtube. What can we do, eh?

People who have interest in these videos are usually educated.

thats cause napoleon tried hard to be like caesar

That was my impression, too. Doesn't look like a coincidence, Royer probably wanted to drive home the fact that Vercingetorix was facing off against an incredibly mighty opponent. But French Google doesn't return any interesting results when combining the name of the painting and that of Napoleon so who knows.

@@Iason29 Actually never considered that, but he was a huge fan of Caesar so that makes perfect sense. I figured it was just because the painters were all from the same period and had similar style.

Both Caesar and Napoléon had aquiline noses, and considering the nose is one of the major features of the face (standing out most, no pun intended) it's easy to see them looking alike due to that.

10th Legion : French artist ?

LOL

They were sunbathing and having a barbeque.

Raymond Kisner boomer Gauls popping open a can of ol Miller lite

Me and the boys resisting the Roman legions

EXTROVERT 100

You're mistaken, it wasn't Mars or even Ares who blessed us, but LORD KRATOS

Fortune spreads her legs for you. The city is yours.

wouldn't it be Minerva, because its educational?

htf5555 Not for sale

Minerva a WGTOW

IIRC Asterix shows the scene several times and the picture of the surrender depends on the viewpoint of the person mentioning/remembering it.

My high school French teacher had all of the Asterix books, and she let students sign them out. I learned more French from them than I did from her. Uderzo is such a brilliant artist! The body language he gives his characters - Vercingetorix looks SO dejected quand il jete ses armes aux pieds de Jules Cesar. (pardon)

"painful as possible for Caeser" Oh, the 20% of the gallic population killed in the gallic wars will probably tell otherwise?

why?

@@sebastian-benedictflore The Romans were construction if you take it literally.

@@reinatr4848 I see, thank you.

I'm drawing a total blank on why that's your favourite quote.

@@HolmesCory Could be that any of Caesar's wars almost always ends up in Caesar building. It is just amazing

comstr1 yeah, what's it called?

luciferangelica It had something to do with a magic potion or something, don't remember the tribe's name tho

Spaceman Spiff no debit

😂😂😂😂

The druid who supplied the magic potion was 'Getafix'.

darksoysauce fuck cersei

ELETRIKDOG001 Cersei > Oberyn's wife

Vercingetorix is king in the north

Caesar >>>>>>> Cersei

Dubickimus THE KING OF THE NORTH THE KING OF THE NORTH

Michael Pisciarino Sinking ramp

Really helpful actually, thank you.

Benito Mussolini big HMMM energy

@@hmp9444 Slaughtering merchants.

Reminds me of America's wars with Native Americans. Both sides committed atrocities, but b/c American military was superior, there were more crimes against Native Americans so that's what we talk about.

@@bejoysen4468 Yep.

@@bejoysen4468 those civillians were there in a colonial effort. Not to innocent afterall

But from Pompey's point of view, Caesar is evil!

Caesar genocided Gaul for the sake of his ambitions in Roman politics. In the end, he got what he deserved.

_The end justifies the means_

Pompey, Cato, Brutus, Cassius - The Equites of the Old Republic

Pompey: in the name of the (galactic) you are under arrest. The Senate will decide your fate. Caesar:I am the Senate! Pompey: not yet. Caesar it's treason then Roman Civil war begins Brutus leaves after the loss in Greece to Italy and later on Pompey, Cato and Scipio were dead by assassination or suicide etc. And then Brutus as close to Caesar had managed to assassinate him....

Yoksa Duymadın Mı? Of your day? You mean of your week or month

same

Well this is a clear attempt to get liked by Historia Civilis.

Wow that's sad.

NihilisticEntropy he was thought

Yes he was a Roman. The Roman Empire was a truly fair and amazing one. You have citizenship rights which not many empires at any time would give.

And the Crusaders would use it when they fought the Turks.

The civil war next

The Equalizer Caesar to Pompey and the Senate: "Now, what we got here is... failure... to communicate."

Garret LeBuis Titanfall 2?

Sam Lund Cool Hand Luke, actually.

No, keep it going until Augustus and Mark Antony get Caesar's death.

Indeed

either that or a roman calvary shield.

in fact the roman scutum is a slightly altered copy of a Gallic design. The same way the romans saw chainmail and went "hey that's a good idea".

Same with the adaptation of the Roman helmets. Just take a look at them bevor and after Ceasers "adventures" in Gaul. Gallic black smiths where top notch.

Rushmere apparently it's more of the Celtiberian people Shields with the boss and the spine but also the Romans in the Second Punic war were changing the standard sword version to the Hispanic version.

Belisarius The Great there weren't roads? Meh perhaps the part of the alps he was going was more hazard?

Perhaps, and maybe he was also crossing just a sliver of the Alps instead of the entire length of it.Still, it certainly is impressive that Caesar got his force to move that quickly through such difficult terrain. Quite a bit of Caesar's military success can be attributed to his ability to respond to new threats and information extremely quickly, sometimes even catching his enemies off guard.That reminds me of another great Roman leader Basil II, whose force was so ridiculously mobile (each man had a mount for both himself and his equipment) that sources say they traveled at lighting speed, and much like Caesar surprised enemies with their rapid responses, gaining many victories in the process.

Hannibal was in a much more dangerous position in terms of supply. He had enemies on both side of the Alps, troops from Africa less used to those harsh conditions, and don't forget the elephants slowing him down! Caesar was a master with logistics though.

Hannibal crossed the Alps 200 years before Ceasar. It's like invading Russia today as opposed to the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1800

Alfredo di Nuzzo That's a fallacious comparison. The amount of technological progress from now to the Napoleonic invasion is orders of magnitude higher than the same amount of time two millenia ago. I would say the time difference was insignificant compared to other factors.

Shirou Emiya, Shitlord of Justice Yes, yes it is

Shirou Emiya, Shitlord of Justice What’s this a reference to?

Imperialx Warlord The kids comic series Asterix and Obelix, that centre around the Gallic wars

Kenneth Philipson I second this!

Nah, that can wait until after Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Well can't really be good for views to say "my boy Caesar at it again with the genocides

Genocide was the modus operandi of war for most of the time for most of the world. Most great conquerors of history would qualify as genocidal maniacs by today's standards. I don't think Historia Civilis means to say that Caesar was particularly evil by historical standards. He was just much more effective at it because he was a) a genius and b) in charge of the most efficient war machine of his time, the roman army.

Well Said!

Belisarius The Great I agree with what Nidhogg said. He's certainly still fond of Caesar, but every historical figure has their flaws, and the flaw we see here in particular is one of many ancient generals. Yes, it was cruel and in our modern eyes barbaric, but this was just how it went :/. Still, Caesar was an amazing figure and one who seems to stand out amoungst the rest.

Lets not forget that Caesar had shown unusual clemency to his foes in the past, that had no actual benefit for him.Such as when he spared Pompey.And even though it may have been a measure to ensure their loyalty, Caesar never abandoned his men.

Every culture is entitled to fight for its survival, that's fair, and they're also entitled to fight others for their own interests if they seem it fit. Sadly for the Gauls, the Romans were interested in the Gaulish lands, and the Gauls couldn't defend them well enough, Rome was too superior a match. And that's how it has happened from much before Caesar and much after him, such as in the Fall of Rome (As much as i love Rome, the Empire had made some serious mistakes while the Germanic tribes hadn't, and they took fair advantage from it). Well, throughout history, thousands of cultures/peoples have been absorbed or assimilated this way. The Celts in general weren't too different, they were huge expansionists and at one point went as far as Greece (where they were defeated after a few years), and later went into Anatolia, where they settled (obviously displacing other peoples that were there before). So what i mean, is that in the race for technology and development, those tribes/nations that acquired an advantage over their neighbors, had the right to use them to conquer and expand, that way spreading the mindset that lead to such developments. To the detriment of the conquered's own way of life, humanity found a way to select for the strongest and most efficient cultures (Be it through collaboration, military might, demographics, etc).

@@Pao234_ agree 100%. That's why I found the emotional swooning over Vercingetorix at the end a little cringe. Usually the narrator is able to keep his strong dislike for Caesar in check in his other videos.

The Gauls were not saints, they were pillagers and usurpers and tried to invade Roman homeland many times, including Greece.

@@ernestov1777 so what, they raid a few villages here and there that makes it ok for Rome to step all over them? What point are you trying to make here

@@Dieter-Doeddel also, the paintings are loaded with French nationalism, which is basically what the romans used to conquer and extend their empire. I wonder what the narrator thinks of French colonialism

ade meidian malik lol

ade meidian malik he full annexed all the possible coalition members along with the arverni

HRE mechanics are bullshit aye

But take influence ideas

Ae is a bitch

Makes the atmosphere more..eirie

Yeah it's present in many creepypasta's lol

That's the soundtrack from Eyes Wide Shut if I'm not wrong.

not only accurate but also climatic depiction. high respects to authors. waiting for conquest of Greece and Pontus

Nope. The Author's called Myuuji. The piece is called Angst

getafix ? You call Asterix Geta fucking fix ? bruh

All the Gauls need to do was buy flax tape. But *NO* they had to refuse.

@@cebonvieuxjack C'est comme ça qu'ils appellent Panoramix. Moi j'appelle ça de l'hérésie.

He might wanna redo a few of his earlier videos then. Just because of the difference in audio quality.

That's be like 80,000,000 years long

Go to his channel > playlists. There's one for chronological order. Start with Cicero's year.

Rimsiakas I know that but what I mean is he could add little bits in-between

Rimsiakas no Battle of the Trebia River

3 million

*kickass guitar intro*

fuckkkkingggg badasss!!!!

More likely missile fire

Yes, they were trained, equipped and organized to do it. It's how most siege assaults went even in the medieval era, put up a line of shields and keep moving forward little by little to build advanced positions to move between you camp and the city. In a sense, the Viet Cong did it at Dien Bien Phu, slowly creeping and isolating the French.

What I don't understand is how you don't see the high ground as the final stand, It would be safer to flee the city than going in while giving away the high ground.

They constructed mobile wooden defenses, basically think of a wooden fence made from planks on supports, about 2, 2.5 meters high, that they moved up as the ramp was being constructed. defenders would then try to set these defenses on fire, by pouring tar or oil on them and igniting it. It was a constant battle to construct/deconstruct these defenses as they were critical to getting the ramp up.

May the rest of your day be filled with colorful boxes!

And by not after losing there attacking Caesars supplies before they could join the main army. Hindsight is awesome.

He should have attacked their main food supply too.

I think you're underestimating how chaotic and hard to manage battles in ancient war were. Avaricum's strike against the siege equipment might be something Vercingetorix wasn't aware would happen. And he wouldn't have had his entire armed standing in formation, ready to attack at all times throughout the day and night. Putting his entire army in fighting order would probably have taken hours. Sure, if he had known that the attack would happen, yes. But he might well not have, and if he wasn't prepared for it to happen, there's no way he could've launched a coordinated assault upon the Roman lines.

It’s easy to say thousands of years later where you have all the info of who and how many and where they are.

yes the people of Avaricum shouldve just radio'd the attack in to Vercingetorix on their walkie-talkies

Honestly Vercingetorix sounds more impressive. Cingeto rather sounds like Geppetto or Jar Jar Binks.

that is false, the rix at the end is king in gaulish, and was not addrd

History channel should really look into the squares aesthetic

My favourite word.

Veni, vidi, vici, Verci!

illuminatix

I ate six twix with Vercingetorix. But then I hit the bricks cause he wanted another fix. I said it's cool if we hang out, but no chill 'n flix.

stickerhppy Gaulish chieftains have the suffix -rix, being a corruption of the Latin "Rex" (King). It makes their names even more fun tbh.

me too right?

Against enemies yes. Against friends🤷‍♂️

Caesar, like Alexander, was also a genius of getting into hopeless situations where his men had to do or die. Nothing like a bit of extra motivation to keep fighting when the alternative is: We All Die.

I really never approved of comparing Alexander with Caesar. The context in which they conquered was very different. Alexander had the major technological advantage of the sarissa phalanx, no other army he could've faced had something to counter it. Caesar used tecnology, but never left the battle to a single piece of tech, his victories came from true genius and brilliant micro and macro management of all aspects of both battle and war. Alexander was always dangerously reckless and constantly depended on his phalanx advantage. I will not dare to say that Alexander was not an outstanding military leader, but I assure you, he was nowhere near Caesar.

@@as7river This. Alexander the Great was strategically brilliant at preparing his war machine for battle, but once the battle itself started, his recklessness marked him as only a mediocre tactician.

The courage, strength and discipline of his Legionaires are also a big factor for their victories

Don't worry, the Gauls get their due in a few centuies by the time they're Franks. Don't mess with Merovingians.

The Franks consisted for like half their population of Germanic tribes. And the Franks got their ass handed multiple times sadly.

The Huns for example

The gauls were quite genetically and culturally assimilated into the roman world by the time the Franks came around, and they did not exacly usher in a celtic revival. They just put an end to the slow disappearance of whatever was left of continental celtic civilisations.