64. The Battle of Alesia (Part I)

Alesia is Julius Caesar’s greatest battle and one of the most famous battles in history. With Vercingetorix and his men held up in the hilltop town of Alesia, Julius Caesar and the Romans start a monumental project of fortifications to wall Vercingetorix in.

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Sketch of the Battle of Alesia, by Muriel Gottrop, December 2004. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license. Available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SiegeAlesia.png.

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The March of History is a biographical history podcast on Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Not only does it cover Julius Caesar's life in depth, it also explores the intricate world of ancient Rome and all of the key players of the late Roman Republic including Cicero, Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Mark Antony, Brutus, a young Augustus (Octavian), Marius, Sulla and (though not Roman) Cleopatra.