Another possibility is that the horses died during the battles of the Gallic Wars when people in Gaul fought to defend their territory against Romans led by Julius Caesar. Indeed, similar mass ...

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...

What we do have, however, is important, the fourteen “books” of war commentaries; eight of The Gallic War (one not by him), three books of The Civil War, and then one each on The Alexandrian War, The ...

But the main beneficiary of the wars was undoubtedly Caesar himself. Awash with Gallic gold, he shrewdly targeted financially embarrassed senators who, in return for Caesar’s “generosity” in ...