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Gauls. The Gauls ( Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul ( Gallia ). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language .
- Prologue
- Rome Sacked and Burnt
- The Defense of The Citadel
- A Phyric Victory For The Gauls
- Aftermath
In 391 BCE, Roman intervention broke the Gallic siege of the Etruscan city of Clusium. The next year, led by the Senones tribe and their chief Brennus, the infuriated Gauls went to war against Rome. The Roman armyintercepted the Gauls on the banks of the Tiber, near its confluence with the Allia River, eleven miles (18 km) north of Rome. The Gallic...
The day after the battle, as the sun set on July 19th, the Gallic army arrived at the walls of Rome. The gates were not shut and no troops manned the walls. The ease of their victory at the Allia and the undefended city, made the Gauls suspect a trap. For now, the Gallic army encamped between Rome and the nearby River Anio. Scouts rode off to recon...
The Romans on the Capitol Hill were determined to put up a spirited defense. The Gauls advanced up the hill with shields above their heads to ward off missile fire. The Romans let them come half way up, to where it was steepest, then charged, completely overwhelming their foes. Deciding to avoid any more fruitless casualties, the Gauls decided to s...
After seven months of blockade both the defenders of the Capitol and the Gauls were reduced to famine. The Gauls also suffered from malaria which killed them in such numbers that they gathered their dead into piles and burnt them. Nevertheless, the Romans on the Capitol finally surrendered and agreed to pay 1000 pounds of gold for the peaceful with...
Their defeat by the Gauls at the Allia River and the sack of their city made it clear to the Romans that they needed a more formidable army and better city defenses. The subsequent replacement of the clumsy phalanx with the smaller, more flexible maniples and the reliance on heavy infantry, armed with large semi-cylindrical rectangular shields, sho...
- Ludwig Heinrich Dyck
The Gallic invasion of Rome in 390 BC remains one of the most significant events in early Roman history, a pivotal moment that dramatically altered the course of the Roman Republic. This incursion was led by the Senones, a Gallic tribe, under the leadership of Brennus. The Gauls, a collection of Celtic tribes inhabiting areas in what is now France, Belgium, and Northern Italy, were known for ...
Apr 10, 2024 · The Gauls were a group of Celtic peoples and tribes inhabiting Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as parts of the Netherlands and Germany, on the west bank of the Rhine, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
The Gaels had relations with the Roman world, mostly through trade. Roman jewellery and coins have been found at several Irish royal sites, for example. [72] Gaels, known to the Romans as Scoti, also carried out raids on Roman Britain, together with the Picts. These raids increased in the 4th century, as Roman rule in Britain began to collapse ...
Feb 21, 2018 · The Gauls did not, as a whole, build for eternity, as the Romans seemed to. They left little physical evidence behind. The Romans repressed the Celtic culture of Gaul. It may have taken only a generation after the Roman conquest for the traditions of Gaul to have been largely forgotten.
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Apr 28, 2011 · Gaul (Latin Gallia, French Gaule) is the name given by the Romans to the territories where the Celtic Gauls (Latin Galli, French Gaulois) lived, including present France, Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany on the west bank of the Rhine, and the Po Valley, in present Italy. The ancient limits of Gaul were the ...
