Caesar's Gallic Triumph

An ancient historian vividly reconstructs-and persuasively reassesses-the Roman Empire's most significant victory of the Gallic Wars. In 52 B.C., Julius Caesar pulled off one of the great feats of Roman arms in what is now Burgundy, France. His heavily outnumbered army utterly defeated the combined forces of the Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix and completed the Roman conquest of Gaul. The Ale...