Julius Caesar #15 – The Destruction Of The Belgae
Life Of Caesar
Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
4.4 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2014
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In 57 BCE, during the Winter break in campaigning, Caesar got word that the Belgae (Belgian) tribes to the north were joining forces to attack Caesar, worried that he was coming after them after he’d finished with Gaul. According to Caesar’s Commentaries, they amassed a force of nearly 300,000 warriors. Caesar had a mere 40,000 […]
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:15.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls to episode 15 of the Life of Caesar podcast. My name is Cameron Riley and with me as |
| 0:25.8 | always is the king of Virginia Ray Harris Jr. Ray, I know that you have these fancy titles |
| 0:35.0 | and stuff in Virginia, but I have to tell you something. I was Skyping a couple of days ago with my, the original Ray, J. David Markham, the co-host of the Napoleon Bonapot podcast, who tells me that he is now a knight. |
| 0:55.3 | Wow. |
| 0:55.9 | He was knighted, knightified. |
| 0:59.3 | Right. |
| 1:00.2 | By the French government recently for his services to Napoleonic history. |
| 1:06.2 | I now have to refer to him as Sir David Markham. |
| 1:10.2 | Yes, you do. Wow. And I said to him, well as Sir David Markham. Yes, you do. |
| 1:11.8 | Wow. |
| 1:12.9 | And I said to him, well, you know, this just goes to show that it, you know, what can come of doing a podcast with Cameron Riley. |
| 1:20.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:20.8 | And he retorted, no, this goes to show what you can achieve even though you recorded a podcast with Cameron Rory, despite |
| 1:30.2 | having recording a podcast. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah, I think he made a good point on that one. |
| 1:34.6 | So play your cards right, Ramondo, is what I'm saying. |
| 1:38.6 | And you two could be a knight. |
| 1:41.0 | I don't know if the Romans, uh, yeah, |
| 1:44.6 | still knight have, |
| 1:45.9 | have the equivalent of the academic palm with palms, |
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