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  2. 40,000 captured. The Battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by the Roman army of Julius Caesar against a confederation of Gallic tribes ...

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  3. Battle of Alesia, (52 BCE), Roman siege of Alesia, a city in eastern Gaul (modern France), during the Gallic Wars. Roman forces under Julius Caesar’s command surrounded Alesia, within which sheltered the Gallic general Vercingetorix and his army.

  4. Apr 26, 2021 · The Battle of Alesia was a decisive Roman victory in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars in September 52 BCE. Roman commander Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) and his legions faced a united Gallic army under the command of Vercingetorix (82-46 BCE), chief of the Arverni, at the hilltop fort or oppidum of Alesia, in modern-day eastern France.

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  5. Jan 13, 2019 · The Battle of Alesia was fought September-October 52 BC during the Gallic Wars (58-51 BC) and saw the defeat of Vercingetorix and his Gallic forces. Believed to have occurred around Mont Auxois, near Alise-Sainte-Reine, France, the battle saw Julius Caesar besiege the Gauls in the settlement of Alesia. The capital of the Mandubii, Alesia was ...

  6. Siege of Alesia (52 BCE): one of the most important battles during Caesar 's conquest of Gaul. After he had taken the Gallic town, only mopping-up operations remained. War in Gaul. Julius Caesar. In 58 BCE, Julius Caesar started the conquest of Gaul, to put an end to the (perceived) Gallic threat to Italy.

  7. Julius Caesar’s Roman army constructed a double ring of siegeworks at Alesia in 52 BC in an effort to force the Gauls into submission. This article appears in: January 2018. By Coley Cowan. As Julius Caesar’s Roman army began its march on a late summer day in 52 BC in eastern France it discovered Gallic cavalry barring the way of its vanguard.

  8. Jun 30, 2017 · The 52 BC Battle of Alesia was the concluding episode of Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. Implementing a ruthless, classic strategy of siege warfare at Alesia, Caesar put an end to six years of Celtic resistance and placed most of what is today’ Western Europe under Roman rule. While nobody is quite sure where the clash took place, it is ...

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