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Gallic Wars
Gallic wars
Gallic wars Julius
CAESAR's campaigns (58–51 BC), which established Roman rule over central and northern Europe west of the River Rhine (
GAUL). Crossing into Transalpine Gaul, Caesar repelled German tribes in the south and east, Belgae in the north, and Veneti in the west. He even crossed the Rhine to demonstrate Roman control of that crucial natural frontier. With speed and ruthlessness and helped by intertribal disunity he subdued the northern and western coasts. He twice (55 and 54 BC) invaded Britain, which was regarded as a Belgic refuge and threat to Rome. In the winter of 53–52 BC,
VERCINGETORIX rallied the central Gallic tribes in unusual unity. In a long and bitter war, Caesar defeated him and his successors, and he was executed. Caesar's war dispatches,
De Bello Gallico, supply most of the information about these events.
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The Gallic Wars.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner; 12/22/2002; ; 474 words
; The Gallic Wars Participles gleam, like dull swords sunk in clabbered mud. The clock flinches toward noon. Caesar in his spattered skirt wars with swank Caesar, cleanly reminiscing in his seaside home, like a professor...
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Rugby World Cup: All's flair in Gallic war tactics THE MAIN CONTENDERS England prepared for unlikely gamble, France primed to gambol while Australia calculate odds and Ireland play wild card
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; WHAT TO make of them. This time last year, the Tricolores had won back-to-back Grand Slams for the first time in their history and looked every inch the future world champions. Thomas Castaignede and Olivier Magne were playing the rugby of the Gods, Christian Califano and Franck Tournaire were the
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Peugeot hots up Gallic price wars
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 7/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; How do you match Renault's impressive pricing? ADRIAN BLACKBURN discovers Peugeot has its own plan BOLSTERED by new models, Peugeot New Zealand is looking to lift sales of the oldest French carmaker to 1000 a year, against 600 in 1998. Keen pricing is expected to be a key to success, along with
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Reconstruction, impeachment through Gallic eyes.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of France during the last year of World War I and the Versailles Peace Conference that...passionate witness to the great post-Civil War struggles over Reconstruction and the impeachment...never had been of one mind about the Civil War, of course. It was fought by a touchy...
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War of the roses: Is France losing? E.U. plan to relax rules on how they are made provokes Gallic outrage
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/9/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune 05-09-2009 War of the roses: Is France losing? E.U. plan to relax rules on how they are made provokes Gallic outrage Byline: Stephen Castle International Herald Tribune Edition...
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Vercingetorix and the failure of gallic resistance: John Haywood explains why the tactics adopted by the Gallic leader Vercingetorix to resist Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul played into Roman hands.
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...ambitious of these took place at the Gallic stronghold of Alesia (Alise Ste...romantic 35 ft tall statue of the Gallic war-leader Vercingetonx, which was...Napoleon. Far from being the hero of Gallic resistance against the Romans, he...
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The ghost cavalry The ghost cavalry Side by side with their horses, Gallic warriors who fell to the might of the Romans.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...recently-discovered World War I grave where British soldiers...southern France. The powerful Gallic Averni tribe, based in today...invasion of Gaul in 58BC and the Gallic wars which continued until 51BC. The one Gallic triumph was the revolt against...
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NSW: Gallic dodges a bullet to win Sydney Cup
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 4/14/2007; 449 words
; ...today. The injury-ridden Gallic was given little chance of running...crowd of 20,807 at Randwick, Gallic paid $7 for the win after beating...Rogerson lauded the efforts of Gallic's vets Luke Campbell and John...Bentley Biscuit, while Desert War won the Queen Elizabeth Stakes...
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Paris offers EU newcomers crash course in French Battle to defend Gallic culture against the rise of English rages in Europe's corridors of power
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...front in its battle to defend Gallic culture from the encroachment...matters of supreme importance to Gallic cultural life - art, food and...activity to find an acceptable Gallic alternative. (They suggest...French during the Second World War, said that the growing appetite...
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Gallic tantrum shows it is time for France to swap realpolitik for the real world
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 2/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...himself an overwhelming mandate for war, then he has a clear course...first year of the Second World War aroused feelings of schadenfreude...amateurs from the theatre of war. It signalled that the phoney...King, not the 19th-century Gallic Tony Benn) claimed that France...
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Gallic Wars
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gallic Wars , campaigns in Gaul led by Julius Caesar...the last signs of disorder. Caesar's Gallic Wars were the theater in which he displayed...to the Atlantic. The prime source of the Gallic Wars is Caesar's own commentaries, De...
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Gallic wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Gallic wars Julius CAESAR's campaigns...VERCINGETORIX rallied the central Gallic tribes in unusual unity. In a long and bitter war, Caesar defeated him and his...and he was executed. Caesar's war dispatches, De Bello Gallico...
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Aedui
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aedui or Haedui , Gallic people, occupying in the 1st cent...by Ariovistus and at odds with their Gallic neighbors, they were allies of the...at first aided Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars and later were not wholehearted in their...
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Cold Warriors
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
...Union a commitment to the Cold War was necessary for the leaders...vigil against all forms of Cold War heterodoxy. Outside the United...powerful allies. Their Cold Wars were similar to the principal...histories that preceded the Cold War and in some ways transcended...Cold War had an ...
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DCN S.A.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...dockyards, according to Toulon in War and Revolution . It had been...the peak of the Revolutionary War in America. Brest remained an...construction, notes Toulon in War and Revolution . Vast forest...was said to be suited to the Gallic disposition). In the late 1800s...
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