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He's establishing his reputation as a leader, as a man who delivers new lands to the Roman Senate, the Roman people.

He did that in Spain, farther Spain, further Spain.

He conquered the edges of the Iberian peninsula to demonstrate his prowess.

He's relentless about Britain, but at the same time he has trouble in Gaul.

He's declared that Gaul is subdued, but it's not.

So, Professor, in these critical years, between 55 and 50, when the consulships are always up for debate and there's bribery and sometimes they don't have consuls,

Caesar was not much in Rome. He's always in Gaul.

But I take it that he wasn't in charge of the narrative at this point.

The Britain's really were troublesome, and the Gaulic tribes really were a threat to him, especially the Versainghetorics.

Is that correct?

Yeah. So, the Romans and the Gauls had sort of had a strange relationship going back, and Caesar showed up, and of course nobody would welcome an invader taking over their country.

We always see this in history.

So, Caesar initially looked very successful. It's amazing. He claims after just two years he'd pacified all of Gaul.

But of course he had. And what happened wasn't, this is part of why his commentaries are so interesting, as you can actually, even in his somewhat biased account,

see that forces were organizing against him. And they started to rebel in central Gaul and northern Gaul, especially.

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