Word: labienus
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...staged the climax of his triumphant re-entry into Paris in 1944 at the Etoile because the site has been a traditional center for national celebrations since the end of the 18th century. In fact, its historical significance dates from Roman times. In 56 B.C., Caesar's lieutenant Labienus defeated Camulogene, king of Lutece (ancient Paris), in a battle on that spot. By 1730 it was already called the Etoile (star) because it was a junction of roads on a hilltop. Some regarded it as no more than a "field of mud or dust, rough enough to break...
...Norman Conquest to check on the roads used by William the Conqueror in Normandy and Brittany. He was the only one of his staff who knew that captured Regensburg was the Ratisbon of Napoleonic fame. The Melun crossing of the Seine, he noted, was the same used by Labienus with his Tenth Legion about...
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