In the face of overwhelming opposition they fight on. What is striking about the Romans is their sheer bloodymindedness. Vercingetorix, who led the big campaign against Caesar that involved most of the peoples of Gaul, is reported as realising this and advised that they should carry out a scorched earth defence, abandoning all towns that couldn't be defended against the Romans as well as starting fighting in winter. It seems that an ad hoc supply network was created (p.174 and p.183) to meet Roman needs but in addition the soldiers regularly gathered in crops whenever they could and occasionally cattle. Tens of thousands of men roaming round Gaul needed food and fodder. Part of the reason for the savagery is logistics. Though of course he could have been exaggerating to impress the people back home. One of the Gaulish leaders, Vercingetorix, has the ears cut off or an eye gouged out of his own soldiers "even for a minor fault" (p157), Roman civilians are massacred on occasion while Caesar in his own account records the extermination of substantial proportions of entire peoples, sells the populations of captured towns in to slavery and in a moment of mercy has a hand of every man captured in one of his last campaigns chopped off to serve as a visual aid to clarify the folly of resisting Rome to the unenlightened. The warfare is savage, and at the end Caesar tumbles into The Civil War that ends the Roman republic. Unlike Asterix the injuries aren't restricted to black eyes and broken bones, nor is there a big feast at the end. One of the Gaulish leaders, Vercingetorix, has the ears cut off or an eye gouged out of his own soldiers "even for a minor fault" (p157), Roman civilians are massacred on occasion wh This is what I was brought to by a childhood of reading Asterix. This is what I was brought to by a childhood of reading Asterix. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.more To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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