Tragic Moments in History - The Abandoned Citizens of Alesia
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Caesar and Vercingetorix faceoff at Alesia over the fate of Gaul! Follow the tragic tale of the non-combatants who found themselves abandoned by both sides in a battle of wills: (Use affiliate links for purchase to help support the channel)
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This episode focuses on a tragedy overshadowed by larger historical headlines. This is a recurring theme in history and persists today on a daily basis. Empathy is one of the first things we lose in history and it is important to remember that the events of the past were shaped by people who were every bit as real as you or I. Retelling history in color is an important goal of the Moments series and I hope that this resonates with viewers. As always, feedback is welcome
Invicta Great video
Invicta if you even need help with anything to make this videos ask me. You know how much I love this series
Invicta I wonder that the next video will about.
Amazing video
Nazi "High" Command
Abandoned by not only their enemy Caesar, their Lord Vercingetorix, but their plight was abandoned by future historians also. Truly, a horrible fate.
Synystr7 We did not abandon them, we compared them to the yolocaust.
Synystr7 historians never abandon history. This channel actually added more to it then we know which distorts what happened.
They must have curse this fate to the very end.
Draco B
To study history in any meaningful way necessitates speculation. The fact of the matter is, we can only acquire cold hard evidence for so much, and if we wish to make sense of any of it, we must apply educated guesswork to try filling in the gaps.
Of course it is important to distinguish between what we know and what we think, but dismissing anything we don't know for certain will leave you with a very incomplete picture of history.
Which distorts the facts for future historians which was my point. I am not a huge fan of gibbons for instance but I respect his work in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire because he included so many contradictions in his footnotes. A page might say an emperor ruled from 272 - 274, then the footnotes say "this overlaps with tacitus claim of a four year reign beginning on the ides of December. Yet I feel that is an in error as he also sets the coronation in 277 after the ...." etc. You slowly must include more and more "filler" until even the most brilliant work is half guesses.
It's particularly horrible to imagine that many of the Gallic warriors in Alesia likely had family among those civilians forced outside the city, imagine standing guard day after day, knowing your wife and child are out there dying of thirst and hunger, while being helpless to save them, it must have been torture.
Psychological warfare like that can be really effective. One of the images I was pondering would be the view of no man's land as a guard. Basically every night you see fewer and fewer camp fires until one day it just goes completely dark...
Jacques François bitch its their fault
Invicta That description sent a shiver down my spine. Imagine after losing the battle, knowing that you sent innocent women and children, your OWN women and children, to die slowly, and it was all for nothing.
Kai Thomason yeah not even going to blame the Romans for plundering and bringing death and despair to a whole people right? Give me a break!
It's their fault for wanting freedom!
"We must not forget, so that we are not forgotten"
Chills
Number 15
Never forget to remember the forgotten.
Great job!
Really got inside my skin... we often seem to forget that all these people had lives with their own dreams, sorrows, joys, memories etc just as we do.
The past is really really hard for people to relate to since we don't have much personal connection. On top of that, history classes with timelines, dates, and names to memorize strip even more empathy away. It was only really when I started reading lots of books that history clicked for me and I realized that people have essentially always been the same and any one of us could have traded places with our counterparts from the past
People like you is the problem.
History is the account of man's deeds, both terrible and amazing. This is just one of the least fine moments of our path upon Earth.
What History needs to be is factual, preventing mistyfications and condescendence, so we can learn from our mistakes and make better decisions. The siege of Alesia was imoral from both sides, but repeats itself again and again, even despite international laws forbidding it - and Mosul is just the most recent example.
Krump Grump
One thing is history and another one is ethics. No, someone cannot be replaced. Dying is becoming non-existent.
Krump Grump I know where your coming from, but it's not so simple as "being replaced." If a soldier dies in a war, the family as well as friends will grieve. Their families and friends in turn may also feel their grief. That is not something that can be so easily replaced. Things would be so much simpler if we were like ants, so easily replaceable and so easy to move on from. But humans are not quite the same. (Maybe not in the context of the entire universe, but still).
You can really tell Oakley wrote the script. He always has such a brilliant humanistic approach to history. This reminded me of his brilliant Cannae documentary with its personal touch.
Thanks for noticing. I really appreciate it when others try to humanize history and have attempted to do the same. A notable academic is John Keegan who took this approach when it came to analyzing warfare. His book, the "Face of Battle" is really eye opening
SuperDogLog humanism is gay
Squire Cuckbane 20/20 edge
Invicta Oakley, have you read the Guns of August? I think you'd enjoy it very much.
Constantine XI Oh hi
"So the Mandubian population, who had received the other Gauls into their town, were compelled to leave it with their wives and children.They came up to the Roman fortifications and with tears besought the soldiers to take them as slaves and relieve their hunger; but Caesar posted guards on the ramparts with orders to refuse them admission."
That's it. The only contemporary account (Caesar's own) of what happened.
A leader who abandons his people is not fit to be one, if I know that my leader may abandon me, why would I follow him
Eren Jäger It's war, what do you expect? Plus they both made strategically good decisions. These both guys were at each others throats. Plus if I was Julius I would of done the same. I mean he must of thought some of those people were spies. It's a hard choice yes but his troops also couldn't spare them food because his own troops needed to be well fed and ready to go to war. I'm sure one person from both sides tried to help in a way by tossing food over the walls and their actions might have gone unseen.
Eren Jäger What?
Eren Jäger First off why does my IQ matter in this discussion also yes I did read your comment. But since you're being a total wannabe smart ass your comment was fucking stupid because you clearly don't know how warfare worked at that time. Maybe if you actually studied history you would know that spies at these times were actually fucking common. So please if you didn't know that you CLEARLY don't have a high IQ. So stop being such an ass. Over a COMMENT.
Eren Jäger Also did you read MY COMMENT I was simply saying that both leaders made reasonable military decisions. Smartass...
Eren Jäger Not my fault you decided to be a smart ass.
How did the Gauls manage to lose attacking from two sides with about quadruple the forces?
The numbers are certainly inflated by Caesar to elevate his victory. That being said, the Gallic force was likely still larger but was less well organized. That is to be contrasted to the Roman force which was able to entrench itself successfully rally troops to weak points
Check the video from Historia Civilis on this topic. He describes the battle in the military terms without the focus on the civilians (he mentions them though). Graphics he uses are not so fancy but the content is great :)
Caesar's preparations like traps , sharpend stakes, moats and pallisades are famous and they were probably extremely effective.
gallic troop quality varied wildly, where rome was more more consistent
Because Romans were a lot better at waging war.
Hardest thing I ever had to do.
No u
Vercingetorix king of the Arverni well fuck you coward, it was easier for you to just get out of the city before the romans came, but you already had a shema in your head that involved sacrificing the citizens
You know he is already dead?.
I'd imagine that your experience during Caesar's triumph might have been harder.
Carl Bates, one could say the whole thing left me breathless.
That Rome II : Total War score. Very fitting
Rick Sanchez I missed that, where was it? I was thinking about Rome Total War battles myself. Games like that scare me sometimes, because I enjoy them so much while they dehumanize and even glorify the nature of conquest, occupation, etc.
Well once in a while I revisit my replays and go to a personal level with the units. Sometimes I hear the routing one crying in fear about their families and begging someone to save them, only to be murdered by my pursuing troops.
The history of the Second World War had thousands of people writing about it. Most of what we know of the Gallic Wars comes from Caesar himself and a handful of other writings, most of which depended on Caesar's works. It's not a fair comparison.
It's incredibly fair. Despite all that documentation and only about 70 years of distance, people still deny a lot of what happened.
People try to deny the Holocaust anyways though. It's one of the clearest cases of why we need to remember history.
Your last line was great " We must not forget so that we will not be forgotten"
Vercingetorix lost the moment he refused to let his citizens in after they were turned back by Caesar. Even if he were to win the battle after that, he would have already lost the very thing he was fighting to protect.
That’s a good point, at that point you’re just fighting to defend an empty city.
no, he was fighting for all the Celts
Rome also fought and claimed the land was theirs right? Doesn't Caesar also have a responsibility to the people?
@@Ansalion Gaul wasn't annexed yet.
He only had enough food for his soldiers realistically. They were there for weeks and when the populace left the walls it gave them more time.
Another great video about the battle of Alesia was made by a channel called Historia Civilis. Check him out if you want to know more, I highly recommend him.
Agree that he is great. But no mention of these civilians in his video of this battle.
Great recommendation, I came across his channel about a year ago and eagerly await his new video ever since.
If you've not already, try 'The Great War' as well, they cover WW1 in alot of detail. The presenter does a really good job of highlighting the harsh realities of war, much like this video, and constantly reminds the audience of just how brutal war is.
Historia Civilis*
Fixed!
Lol i was gonna say that in the comments
Caesar - "We're going to build a wall, it's gonna be the best wall. And the Gaulic people of Alesia will pay for it".
Only that the Mexicans and South Americans migrating via Mexico wanting to come to the USA are not caught in a warzone between two sides firing arrows and rocks at each other. Most Mexicans are not fleeing from war or religious/ethnic conflicts, but are migrating because of economic reasons (poverty, better opportunities elsewhere, etc.).
I'd be very careful when taking past events and simply pasting it over current events, since it's often done to reinforce a political standpoint.
Corristo89 Great response man.
Corristo89 --- I did not vote for Trump out of mistrust. However, I like your response very much.
Edit - Added a missing word to my comment above.
You lot must be so much fun at parties
Corristo89
I think that was just a joke.
I would say that Vercingetorix is more in the wrong than Caesar. By expelling the townspeople, Vercingetorix hoped to last until the relief force reached them, whereas Caesar was under no obligation to help the townspeople in any way.
David Briggs I don't think there is a "wrong" in this situation. I think both made strategically fine decisions, but Vercingetorix's plan just relied on the false faith of Roman "good will." I think what was "wrong" was Caesar invading Gaul, simply to pad his resumé and validate his ego. But it is hard to judge the doings of the past based upon our modern view points. Different times contain different values.
I think the real moral of the story is that war sucks. Vercingetorix sacrificed his non combatants to buy more time in the siege, Ceaser refused to sacrifice the safety and supply's of his men for them.
Atlas thats why he is stupid, or maybe just dont care about his people, everyone should have known that cesar is a psychopath
Ceaser actions weren't psychotic or intentionally malicious, it was a bad situation for everyone and he put his own people first. He didn't know where or how far away the Gaelic reinforcements were, if he had let them out and someone had told the relief army this might have been a documentary about a Roman massacre
no, you're _saying_ that because he wasn't Roman!
I recall hearing that neither side had the ability to support the banished citizens of Alesea, and both leaders hoped to use their basics needs to force the other to surrender or break camp by further straining resources. Eventually however I heard it was the Gauls who caved and admitted the citizens due to growing unrest in the ranks of the soldiers within Alesea, who (some) had personal connection or shared heritage with it's citizens. Vercengetorix could not risk loosing control of his troops as it would weekend their own ability to defend against a Roman attack when news reached Caesar, however this simply created a more dire situation for the Gauls leading to more desperate actions in order to receive reinforcements, etc. (sending off Scouts/messagengers to plead,etc.)
Its a lot of speculation with little to go off of. I do certainly hope that the Gaul's did eventually yield and let the citizens in with the Gallic reinforcements arriving before food shortages caused starvation.
brilliant and unique take on alesia. one that is too easily forgotten as the Roman period is incredibly 'romanticised', all you tend to recall is the glory and greatness, and the reality is; as above.
love it.
Though, I have huge consideration for the romans even if we don't look at the glory. The pax romana made a lot of inhabitants safe from the flames of war for generations (which was a luxury at the time, gauls were famed warriors and it is not for nothing), and the romans developed urbanism, routes and trade as never before in celtic regions. In the long run I see them as a good empire because they were stable and prosperous, but yes, it is important to recall the horrible cost that hides behind that and remember the human tragedies of it
Mykomatos
Very well put
It's almost like when you're telling the history of your people that one time everybody who wasn't a combatant starved to death is neither important nor something worth talking about. It's a part of history worth study, but that's probably why most people don't think about it or write about it much.
"Yeah we conquered one of the largest overland empires in human history, jump-started civilization and human progress by centuries, and became the influence for almost every major western civilization that came after us. But that is all worthless because of this one time where a bunch of people starved because war is bad."
+DillyDyson007 they actually did ALOT for the whole world. They invented a lot of things and had some great architectural buildings, just saying
+Parker Woods-Wilson And that's exactly what the maker of this video was talking about at 8:14
I came here for Caesar. left with my eyes open to any complete new dimension on history
If you came for Caesar there is a channel called Historia civilis he has covered pretty much every major battle/event in Caesars campaigns and i *HIGHLY* suggest you check him out
@@theodoric7335 he's very anti Caesar in his videos
@@TonyFontaine1988 I disagree. Too often people look at the grand scheme without thinking about the personal and moral repercussions of Caesars actions, I'd say he gives Caesar a fair amount of scrutiny, not blatant bias against him. Plus even if the narrator doesn't like Caesar it doesn't detract from the content.
@@theodoric7335 Caesar was fighting against a very corrupt ogliarchy during his time.
@@TonyFontaine1988 That is completely irrelevant. I'm not here to argue if Caesar was good or bad I'm just saying that Historia Civilis gives a fair amount of scrutiny to Caesar instead of being biased, if you disagree you're welcome to have your own opinion and even present evidence in support of it, but you're moving the goalposts quiet a bit by saying that.
"Nobody knows where Alesia is" or something along these lines is one of the recurring quotes in the great Asterix comics. Reading them as a child, I knew it was a hugely traumatic event for the Gauls. But only just now did this video explain the forgotten horror. Thank you! x
A populous is always a pawn in a larger game...
Yup it sucks
I'm glad you told this. Too often people who talk about history forget the people on the ground or treat their lives as less valuable.
Hi, I am a translator and I would like to translate your videos into French, or at least this one since I live 1-hour-drive south of Alesia. I remember I went there on field trip in primary school. If you happen to come to this part of Burgundy, i also advise you to visit Bibracte, the site of the ancient capital (oppidum) of the Aedui, the local Gauls. The Museum of Celtic Civilisation and the landscape up the hill are worth it ! :-)
You are very welcome to translate this into french. I'd love to visit the site at some point in the future and will definitely keep tabs of your recommendations
Glad to hear that ! However, I don't quite know how to add subtitles to UA-cam videos. I offered my services to Aussie comedian Neel Kolhatkar for his short films long ago, but since I could add the subtitles directly here, I had to resort to special software, and when you're on Mac, there little choice among free and easy apps. So I gave up.
Maybe if you grant me access to your channel I can do something. Or else, I can send you the lines and you'll add them ?
remember vercingetorix was a noble, they believed that the "folks" were to be sacrificed and that it was normal for them to be so, why did he surrender at the end ? did he wish to be spared ??? after all the misery ? he should at least had died in battle, but ceasar was just yet cruel.
I love these videos as i love this channel. Total War, documentaries... All that was missing on my youtube subscription list.
the man from Alesia sitting next to the cart seems to have an abundance of supplies
yeah but its all red apples... the greens ran out long ago : (
+Invicta That's a death sentence
Happiness is watching notification about Invicta.
when hoping for another part for the siege of Jerusalem vid however we get different story of history but with same quality of standards.
A surprise but welcoming one....
BoarhideGaming why you gotta be mean man?I know I'm kinda tough but I have feelings too.
BoarhideGaming whoa, the man was killed by is own bastard son! Show a little respect
Noah Miller are you sure his dad is not the late King Aerys II Targaryen? I'm not. If Tywin wasn't dead I'd ask him what he thought about that.
A truly chilling recounting of the tragic destinies of innocent people who were just caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So sad. The things we do to each other, in the name of politics and conquest.
Great video guys, I really feel like your production quality has been greatly improved with these new shorter videos. Also you guys really captured the essence of why I love history. The countless stories, lessons, and knowledge told throughout mankind's many histories are made all the more significant by the fact that these events really happened to real people. So keep up the good work guys.
Best history video I've ever seen. You managed to teach history, give a new perspective on it, put your listeners in the people of those times shoes and made them reflect about their own times. That's what history is all about
Save the people, save the realm. Not the other way round.
When did rulers care about the people? Never. They are simply cows for them.
Utku you do Realize it was Either them or all Gaul, Ceaser couldn’t take them, Taking them means Killing all the men who left to Fight with him, Trusting him with their Faith.
@@Mruninteresting in the end Gaul fell anyway and millions were executed or enslaved in the long term they should have just surrendered
@@mikewazowski4015 maybe you can go and tell that to the guals before they revolted
I was here to learn ... not feel ;(
That's a pretty good way to learn, though. Emotional connections make it harder to forget.
This made me cry so hard. You make history feel personal instead of just spouting facts. I also like your somber time since other youtubers may try to lessen the grim feelings with humor.
Thank you for this. Though their plight is mentioned in each account I’ve read or heard, your day to day account is most impactful. Well done!
excellent work, you are amazing and create great quality videos
great video, you seem to view history from the big picture perspective, not through a scope or lens
Man, you gotta make more of these history focused videos. Your presentation is excellent plus it does provide the viewers with a different outlook on generally known historical events.
This was amazing. I'm glad i found your channel.
I know that voice..
Officially Devin: ua-cam.com/users/OfficiallyDevin
Give that awesome dude some cred homeslice
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@Benson Caisip Yepp
If this was realistic Asterix would have drunk the magic potion and beat up every roman soldier
Would love to see more videos like this in the future. Both informative and entertaining. The art style was on point, bro.
very good work on this event sir. a lot of people do not understand how pivotal this siege was for both sides. it is truly amazing to see how warfare was conducted back then and how lives were effected. great job sir.
It's always weird enjoying a video stating terrible facts or expanding on horrific subjects. Out of curiosity, I can guess that (like it usually happens) the citizens must have resorted to eating their "beasts of burden" and pets, but is there any mention of cannibalism occurring?
Great video like always.
Look up "Alesia" by Eluveitie on UA-cam
Braden Vande Plasse THANK YOU!!! been looking for comments like this for quite a few minutes.
The grass was as green
As it always was
That sinister day
The blackbird sang their songs
As they always did
That black-letter day
We passed the great gate
For the very last time
I did not look back
I knew we'd stay
I knew they would not let us go
Leave the death strip
I saw the gleam in their eyes
Of fear and enslavement
The crushing weight
Beloveth ground
Take me home
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Ianotouta, eternity
Proclaim our barren sacrifice
On that ground we cherished life
We embraced death
As the children's cries trailed off
Sob yielded deathly (hush)
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Ianotouta, eternity
Proclaim our barren sacrifice
The grass was as green
As it always was
That sinister day
As we walked the alleys
Like thousand times before
I knew we'd stay
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Ianotouta, eternity
Proclaim our barren sacrifice
Fascinating! And what a situation to find yourself in..trapped between 2 armies...and no way out, so much uncertainty and fear would have been felt. Very sad. Thanks for the video!
Great video! It really paints a vivid picture of the human side of the suffering caused by war, and gives you an idea what the people went through. I love historical accounts like that, which let you see history through the eyes of the people who were there. Which let you get an idea of what their day to day life was like on a subjective level. By far my favorite way to re-live history. Well done, friend.
Now wars are waged in the comment sections with keyboards and mouse clicking.
#UnfortunatelyRelateable
Theodoric at least no one dies
@@cerridianempire1653 unless you get a stroke from reading the comment section
stroke is overhype -crowbat ant-crane armchair historia aot sent their consul regards sordid way
About the size of the armies, It was common to exaggerate the numbers.If you split these numbers by two, you will get sizes closer to reality.Just saying.
Agreed, if this were a military video I'd dive a bit deeper into the actual realistic figures
Caesaer said, that 300.000 reinforcements were approaching... He has chosen a good number...
I bet you got that from watching the battle of alesia from historia Civilis
wow your level of detail is amazing thank you very much you are a wonderful human being.
Wonderfully done! This new series is top notch!
I look forward to more interesting "Moments in History".
too cruel, even for that times
Not really. It's war. Life or death
I feel for the Gauls, if only because there's no record to tell their side of the story.
good job , i like the artstyle and simple animation and the music is awesome it goes very well with the theme.
keep up the good work cuz we want more :)
Moving tribute. Thank you.
When the high lords play your game of thrones it always the innocents who suffer most.
948 Views And 127 Likes.
Looks Like UA-cam is not Drunk Today
M.F Nur-Ad-Din I can't figure out why there aren't more "likes" but it's hard for people to identify with the extinict Gauls.
when they showed this on a documentary they failed to mention the impact such a moment on on the common person cougt between two clashing armies this was truly sobering. thank you. truly.
Very well made and presented. Amazing!
You should do a video about the Battle of Suiyang that occurred in Ancient China, which led to 30,000 civilians (including children) to be eaten because they ran out of food while defending.
He will not do that because he is afraid to be called a racist and can't white bashing and express his self hate.
I wonder how Caesar managed to have enough food to feed his army while essentially cutting himself off from the outside with his ironclad ring around Alesia?
He wasn't besieged himself, he just made the outer fortifications to defend from the Gallic relief. He had foragers that went out of his own perimeter to gather supplies in the wild
this is my favorite series on your chanel, keep up the good work!
This was awesome man, keep it up!
MAN that stuff is messed up!
Thankfully, we can learn from such mistakes!
Unfortunately, while many will learn from such history, there will be always many more blindly chanting about "honor, righteousness and duty" in war, and as such, zealously supporting ambitious "leaders", "unifiers" and "champions of justice" to bring just another mayhem and suffering. Expecialy last century showed how easily some people can forgot horrors of war and happily turn into zealous mob wanting another war once again.
Erebos-36 yeah it’s gonna go on as long as we exist and besides it’s a lot more harder to teach this now that their’s a lot of us now
"Narration: Oakley"?
Whoops I forgot to update the template, thanks for pointing that out. It was Officially Devin
These are fantastic. Thanks very much!
"We must not forget, so that we may not be forgotten." Good point.
Alesia? What do you mean Alesia? Nothing happened at Alesia. We don't talk about Alesia.
crazy808ish so hows alesia
Good reference
@@Alex-qf9ry Asterix & The Chieftain's Shield :)
The true question is: was it worth saving the troops or the people? Well, Vercingetorix chose the troops .
Thank you so much for this video!!
History channels gives me life and I just found out yours and I'm in love now omg that music and artwork + editing style and the narration it's all top notch 10/10 mate and I feel like Alesia's citizens story has been repeated many times similarly elsewhere untold u_u
Great video, some one should send this to the UN to show them the point of a seige. You can't starve out defenders if you're giving them "humanitarian" aid.
A good part of modern war is PR. The better your PR, the more people are willing to support you. The worse your PR, the more enemies you wind up getting.
Tragic Moments in History episode 30 - the birth of Logan Paul.
lol
Your channel is an underrated gem.
Awesome script and narration!
It is known that Werkingetorix chose to give himself up, to spare his men. He was a great man, and far greater than the worm Kaiser, who built spike pits covered in leaves to prevent the reinforcements from entering, and it was he who denied civilians to exit the battlefield, while the King of the Gauls had again hoped to spare them.
Rome The republic was the city of Rome, and they did not have ideas of expansion until the Gauls came and attacked Rome and destroyed the Romans, and because of this, the Romans began to expand, and the Gauls continued to attack Rome and ally with their enemies, such as Hannibal Barca. Julius Caesar did. It was not a crime because If there was no law or morality that would prevent Vercingetorix from expelling women and children from a city and leaving them without food or provisions.
Vercingetorix left women and children without shelter because there were no morals at that time, Julius Caesar, Pompey Magnus, Hannibal Barca, or Vercingetorix, they sacrificed for their men and their country, but they began to destroy the homelands of others, destroy their people, and enslave other peoples because morals existed in the modern era, did not exist in the ancient or middle ages, so do not make the morals of the modern era in the ancient era, or that Vercingetorix and the Gauls are angels
Now I want to write a song about Alesia
Even tho I can't compose nothing good
Isabelli Martins
Yeah, please don't even try.
Seen this battle a couple of times on different occasions but I had no idea about these civilians:( Thanks for reminding us about the horrors of war, it's easy to forget..
Subscribed. This was wonderful. As you say, when we discuss history, we're often all too quick to forget that the events we're reading about really happened to real people who were just as human as any of us today. We tend to read history with a sense of detachment that allows us to celebrate glory without mourning the loss that accompanies it.
“Will those of the 22nd century read about the Second World War without the holocaust”. Talk about existential dread
Wait, is this before or after Ceaser's troops took a beating at Boulder City by the NCR?
they didn't mention Joshua Graham so id imagine it's after the first one
Just found your channel, Great work and keep it up because I can't get enough!
I love ancient history.. I wish I had the time and study it full time.. Thank you much for a brilliant video xx
YA YEET
"History recorded little of their fate." Okay
"We must imagine..." No
amazing job! most historians, history channels, documentaries and history fans only care about the achievements of historic figures or the course of major battles..but little attention is given to HUMAN LIVES in the midst of all that action..keep up the good work!
Great video as usual.
5 people's ancestors starved to death
The Italian government should repay reparations to these people equivalent to the food they might have needed to survive.
So some grain, turnips, and a few pigs.
Thank you for not being snowflakes who wan't to forget the bad things. Thank you for being human.
"We must not forget, lest we be forgotten." Well said.
Powerful video. Nice work.
I think this video might be a bit too pro-Roman... I imagine the primary motivation for not allowing the citizens out of the barricade was to force the Gauls into letting them back in and being forced to feed them. On the other hand, Caesar, could have simply given them free access out of the barricade and away from Alesia without having to drain any of his own resources.
Some of them might be spies. Not too mention they might become troublesome raiders or bandits and destroy fields.
+ Caesar didn't really have to do anything about them. They are the enemies after all. Although he is Cruel and in some cases kinda psychopathic, The world back then was very different. He did what most Generals would have done at the time.
I do imagine that the Soldiers stationed at the Town had relations with the exiled people and Vercing didn't want to chance a revolt in the city. So he probably eventually let them back in which weakened the Gauls.
I think you are a bit naive.
No, Caesar couldn't just have let them through. Remember, it was a battle of life and death for the Romans as well.
There could have been spies among the civilians, taking notes of the number, position, weakpoints of the Roman Army. Soldiers disguised as frail, sick men, ready to strike the Romans at their backs. Saboteurs ready to poison the supplies of the Romans. What General (from the ancient times) in his right mind would risk the death of him and his loyal soldiers (who, by the way, often also had family that depend on them) to save civilians from his enemy?
Also, as 8-Bit Knight implied, if it would be the other way around, the Gauls would literally have done the same thing, no doubt about it.
History is filled with stories like this. Yet hollywood choose to make comic book movies....sad
Michal Dvořák very well said my friend! Also too bad they screw up every historical movie they actually make
Michal Dvořák comic book movies make more money..... sad but true
pecu alex fact that Titanic was for a long time highest grossing movie of all time siggests otherwise
You know they have an peplum craze in the 60's ? Like they are a comic book craze this day?
Also WTF you're talking aboot Deathcoldan?
Leftist agenda.
great series! keep it up! history is so moving yet few know how to tell it that way
OY VEY ALWAYS REMEMBER US!!!
now that's edgy
oh and Forget about the treatment of what the French did to Algerians besides just Setif.
R K its an apt comparison. Don't be politically correct about it
It's not edgy, they push this shit down our throats, we fucking get it.
14 88 people push facts down your throat? Jesus you idiots are so pathetic
Without sources I have difficulty believing any of this. It's speculation.
yes this is pure speculation
One of the best videos you ever made
Very informative as always typically for the presentation.
this is literally, exactly what we're doing to syrians and yemeni children today, in 2017. imagine if the empathy you have for people long dead for thousands of years existed for very real, very living children today.