Carthaginian Empire Episode 21 - Caesar Victorious: Carthaginian Empire, #21

By David Bowman

At the hilltop fortress of Alesia, Vercingetorix leads a desperate force of Gaulish warriors in a last stand against a Carthaginian army led by the Roman Julius Caesar. With other tribes surrounding him, Caesar elects to fight an innovative campaign. As the besiegers in turn, become the besieged, history is reaching a climatic point.
It is 53 BC, and Caesar must win his finest battle for his masters, not just for himself.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Bowman
• Release date: Jul 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223369998

David Bowman

Born in 1956 in the East Anglian Fens in England, David moved to Nottingham to study for his business degree. In line with the current myth of the time, he met and married a local girl, and they have now been married for 44 years. They still live within 10 miles of Nottingham and have two adult children, and have happily become grandparents five times over. Following a career in software development and IT management, David was forced to give up work in 2005 to look after both his wife and daughter, both of whom were suffering from different life-threatening illnesses. To fill the time and take his mind off of the domestic and financial issues, David eventually turned to his love of both photography and writing. Seven Sisters was the first product of the latter and has been followed by a prodigious number of works.

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Dedication

History is written by the winners; for if treason succeeds none dare call it treason? I find the concepts this reveals to be fascinating. I can bore the teeth off anyone at twenty paces at parties if you get me going. Hopefully I won’t bore you here. My thanks as ever to the people who encouraged me to write as a means of escaping the sometimes dreadful realities of life. I truly hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them.

Carthaginian Empire – Episode 21: Caesar Victorious

I don’t care what you say, Julius. That place is going to be a bitch to subdue.

Julius smiled at his young aide.

What do you think Castra would have done? Would he have attacked or merely sat behind siege fortifications?

Our late commander wouldn’t have risked the men a direct assault would require. The other Gaulish army is coming in from the west. He’d have turned to attack them and then come back. He certainly wouldn’t have stayed here like the meat in a trap.

Bait my friend, bait.

Ah . . .

The two men turned and stared at the imposing wooden hilltop fortress that loomed over them. Its walls were thirty feet high and constructed of whole tree trunks. Rumour had it they had been driven fully ten feet into