How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If social media is anything ... but it was only thanks to an uprising in Gaul (modern-day France), that they decided to turn back - to go and fight ...

Between 58 and 50 BC, Caesar used his expertise in military strategy, along with the Roman army’s training and discipline to conquer and subdue the rest of Gaul, up to the river Rhine.

Conquering HeroA bust from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples depicts Julius Caesar, whose popularity skyrocketed after his conquest of Gaul ... to the law of the Roman Republic ...

During his conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar besieged and then obliterated old Orleans, then called Cenabum. Later Roman overlords of the province would bestow the name Aurelanium on the city.