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Page 110
... Bellovaci were to provide 60,000 , and the Suessiones and Nervii each 50,000 . Whatever the actual numbers may have been , they must vastly have outnumbered Caesar's 40,000 legionaries , and , in order to impede the main contingents ...
... Bellovaci were to provide 60,000 , and the Suessiones and Nervii each 50,000 . Whatever the actual numbers may have been , they must vastly have outnumbered Caesar's 40,000 legionaries , and , in order to impede the main contingents ...
Page 158
... Bellovaci , encamped there and sent out his cavalry to capture prisoners , from whom he might ascertain his enemy's plans . They told him that the Bellovaci and their allies were encamped on Mt St Marc1 in the forest of Compiègne , a ...
... Bellovaci , encamped there and sent out his cavalry to capture prisoners , from whom he might ascertain his enemy's plans . They told him that the Bellovaci and their allies were encamped on Mt St Marc1 in the forest of Compiègne , a ...
Page 160
... Bellovaci ' piled up in front of their line , and at the end of the day fired them at a given signal . So a continuous flame suddenly covered the whole force from the sight of the Romans.'1 Then they ' fled away at a most furious speed ...
... Bellovaci ' piled up in front of their line , and at the end of the day fired them at a given signal . So a continuous flame suddenly covered the whole force from the sight of the Romans.'1 Then they ' fled away at a most furious speed ...
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CHAPTER I | 15 |
Inauguration of the Century of Revolution | 22 |
The First Civil | 28 |
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