Explanation: During Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, taking place in what-is-now-France, Caesar and the Roman forces besieged the Gallic coalition leader Vercingetorix in Alesia. To keep him from slipping past their lines, they built a (wooden) wall around the city they were besieging.
… then they heard a massive Gallic army was marching to lift the Roman siege.
So Caesar ordered all the crops in the region to be harvested at once, what could not be carried to be burned, and a second wall to be built - this one around his siege camps to keep the enemy Gauls out!
Nice and snug!
Since his forces had all the local supplies, and the Gallic relief force was huge, both the reinforcing army and Vercingetorix’s garrison ran out of supplies before they could force Caesar from his defensive positions, giving Caesar his crowning (POETIC LICENSE) achievement of the Gallic Wars, and effectively ending the wars in the favor of the Roman Republic.
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That guy could totally play a convincing Vercingetorix too
PugJesus@piefed.social 14 hours ago
“When you come in on the Ides and you’re not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, ‘Sounds like someone has a case of the Ides?’”
“No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.”
You know what, Quintus, if you want me to wear 37 layers of segmentata, like your pretty boy over there, Atticus, why don’t you just make the minimum 37 layers of segmentata?
LOL! I just spit coffee all over my keyboard! Thank you very much!