The Roman conquest of Gaul, modern day France, was well documented by the Roman general and governor who led the armies of Rome to victory there: Julius Caesar. The great man in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico explained in detail how his victory was achieved, omitting no detail which would serve to underlie just how great a man he was.
The final victory, against the confederation of Gallic tribes under their chief Vercingetorix, came at the of Alesia in 52 BC. The defeated chief famously threw his arms at Caesar’s feet and all Gaul was won for .
Strangely for such an important moment in the history of both Rome and Gaul, the location of the battle was lost for millennia. was uncharacteristically unspecific in locating the site of his most famous military victory, perhaps assuming that everyone already knew where Alesia was, and the true location of the battle was only confirmed in the 1990s.
