Word: gauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ides of March. As in Warner's earlier volume, The Young Caesar, a restlessly wakeful Julius is musing -in flashbacks-over his career. Since the book covers the last 15 years of Caesar's life, he has a lot to muse over. First, Caesar remembers marching into Gaul, and Author Warner does ample justice to the tactics of the Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar...