Check out the first post in this series for the background to Caesar's wider struggles . I don't really want to sit here and recount the entire Gallic Wars, because that would be tiresome to say the least. Caesar himself wrote an extensive memoir on his time in Gaul. I admittedly have not read it. Historians agree that it is Roman propaganda as far as battle statistics, but that the general course of events is accurate. We're here to talk about the many bad things Caesar did. Most of Caesar's conquests cover modern France. His wars lasted for nearly a decade, although they culminated in 52 BCE at Alesia. Here Caesar pulled his famous 'donut wall' tactic, sealing his army in between the city and relief forces. This was the victorious end to Caesar's war on Vercingetorix, 'King of the Gauls' and fighting after that was markedly less intense. Vercingetorix, had been raised as a captive amongst the Romans and so knew their art of war, making him Caesar...
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero