Air One:
If you've got time : could you explain me your pseudo ? Vercingetorix is pretty surprising for anyone living out of France
I'm an amateur history buff of all things Roman. In high school, I learned to speak and write Latin (though, it is long forgotten for lack of use). On forums for games, such as CivCity:Rome and Caesar IV, my pseudo is Vercingetorix. I just carried it over to the ScubaBoard, because I just KNEW nobody else would use it. Although you know who he was, for those who do not:
Vercingetorix was a Gaul (Gallic) warchief originally from one of the Germanic tribes. He had three battles with Julius Caesar during the Gallic Campaign. In the first two battles, Vercingetorix and his troops were victorious. In 54 BC, he holed up on a mountain-top at Alesia with 80,000 troops. Caesar surrounded the hill with 60,000 Legionaires. Rather than assault the hill-top fort, Caesar laid siege by digging a huge trench-work surrounding the hill. Vercingetorix held out as long as he could; then, he attacked. Vercingetorix was defeated. Read more here:
http://www.unrv.com/fall-republic/siege-of-alesia.php
As a side note to my American friends, after the Gauls were driven out (to what is now Ireland, hence their Gaelic language), the Romans remained. When the Romans moved out, they were replaced by another Germanic tribe, the Franks. The Franks were so well trusted by Rome, that they lived quite freely. So freely, in fact that when a Roman wished to speak freely, he would request of his listener, "May I be frank with you?" The more you know...
