高卢战记 - War in Gaul

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Caesar was orphaned in his childhood and was adopted. He proved himself by being a top class gladiator, at which time gladiators were consisted of mainly slaves.

He, then, joined legion and very quickly distinguished himself in the battlefield.

Married a lady from top class, who was subsequently kicked out from her family for marrying a man from lower class, he was stricken by series of misfortune. His wife died at childbirth only 19 year old, left him with a daughter, who married Caesar’s arch rival Pompey and died early of her womanhood.

During his campaign in Gaul and Britain, he was not always in an advantageous position, in fact most of time he was outnumbered by his enemy. However he won the battle by sound judgement, determined zeal and enormous hard labour. At the same time, his reasoning of treatment to the natives in Gaul may be still referred in court case in the modern times.
I am not sure if ‘War in Gaul’ was polished by historians. In this book Caesar was almost a perfect man, being thorough in investigations; well reasoned in judgements; unwilling to waste soldiers’ life unnecessarily; very courageous when making sally; good at using enormous labour to build earthworks, such as rampart, beyond our imagination;  very forgiving even after several open revolt in Gaul.

I only word I can say is that every great man is being great for a reason.

kawara

楼主太牛了，恺撒写的书都看

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kawara 发表于 2013-12-13 07:02
楼主太牛了，恺撒写的书都看

还好是英文，如果是意大利文，那只能折纸飞机了。