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I was also thinking about Caesar when reading the article especially the Battle of Alesia - his greatest battle. He sieged and surrounded Vercingotrix by a wall
by yread 10y ago
I was also thinking about Caesar when reading the article especially the Battle of Alesia - his greatest battle. He sieged and surrounded Vercingotrix by a wall, Vercingotrix called for reinforcements so Caesar built an outer wall to protect himself from them. Then they both attacked him and even though he was surrounded and outnumbered 4:1 he somehow managed to win!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
- pjungwir 10y agoThat is definitely an even better example. :-) I do like that you can see it even with Ctrl+F though. And I think that he uses Galba very skillfully as a foil to his own command.
- mercer 10y agoA while ago I read an article that explained and visualized the Battle of Alesia and it was one of the best things I'd read in a long time. I wish I could find it, but this article does a decent job: http://www.thecivilengineer.org/online-historical-database-of-civil-infrastructure/item/399-walls-at-alesia http://www.thecivilengineer.org/online-historical-database-o... If anyone can recommend similar articles on weird/impressive/ballsy historical battle gambits, I'd love to hear it!
- steamer25 10y agoI was also reminded of the Romans as related on the History Channel show "Engineering an Empire". They talked a lot about how the Romans used concrete for various purposes including aqueducts, etc. Iirc, they mentioned that they'd built a building with a vaulted concrete dome that we weren't able to reproduce, even after the re-discovery of cement, until we had computers.