Hello and welcome to this episode of epochs where once again I should be continuing my narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic

and the narrative of Caesar in Gaul. Now this would be the last episode I'll do about Caesar in Gaul because we're near the end really.

And after this finally I'll cut back to Rome. I'll go back a few years and go back and tell you all about what's

happening in Rome. Because quite a few years have passed since Caesar was last in Rome

for any amount of time whatsoever. And I'll pick up the story with Pompey and Cato and

Cicero and all the various things, all the gang wars with Milo and all that sort of thing

that's going on there. So that will be next time. So this is the last episode I'll do all about

Caesar in Gaul, and we reach the crescendo of events, really, the rebellion of Ersengethyth.

And his final defeat, because if you remember last time Caesar suffered a

minor relatively minor defeat at Gergovia so Caesar obviously won't be happy with that very very

very rarely is ever turned back or defeated or suffers any sort of reverse so when he does

have a small one you know he's not going to be, you know, he's not going to be able to

have that. He's not going to let that liar. And Versengetrix's rebellion was a very big, very

serious one. So Caesar really couldn't just let that go. So let's continue the story. We're still in

52, the campaigning season of 52 BC.

And what Caesar really wants, what Caesar nearly always wants,

is to have a big set-piece open battle,

because he knows he'll almost certainly win that.

Caesar's very good at all sorts of insurgency

and counter-insurgency style warfare,

but when it comes to a stand-up ding-dong battle, he's even better at that.

So that's what he usually wants, and that's what Versengetyricks has, until now, refused to do.

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