CHAPTER X.

(Year of Rome 702.)

(BOOK VII. OF THE “COMMENTARIES.”)

REVOLT OF GAUL--CAPTURE OF VELLAUNODUNUM, GENABUM, AND NOVIODUNUM--SIEGES OF AVARICUM AND GERGOVIA--CAMPAIGN OF LABIENUS AGAINST THE PARISII--SIEGE OF ALESIA.

I. REVOLT OF GAUL. 272

II. CÆSAR BEGINS THE CAMPAIGN. (_See Plate 19._) 275

III. TAKING OF VELLAUNODUNUM, GENABUM, AND NOVIODUNUM. (_See Plate 19._) 278

IV. SIEGE OF AVARICUM. (_See Plate 20._) 287

V. ARRIVAL OF CÆSAR AT DECETIA, AND MARCH TOWARDS AUVERGNE. (_See Plates 19 and 21._) 299

VI. BLOCKADE OF GERGOVIA. (_See Plates 21 and 22._) 303

VII. OBSERVATIONS. 319

VIII. CÆSAR LEAVES GERGOVIA IN ORDER TO JOIN LABIENUS. 320

IX. EXPEDITION OF LABIENUS AGAINST THE PARISII. (_See Plate 23._) 323

X. THE GAULS ASSUME THE OFFENSIVE. 329

XI. JUNCTION OF CÆSAR AND LABIENUS. BATTLE OF THE VINGEANNE. (_See Plates 19 and 24._) 331

XII. BLOCKADE OF ALESIA. (_See Plates 25, 26, 27, and 28._) 338

XIII. DETAILS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT MONT AUXOIS. (_See Plates 25, 27, and 28._) 358