Amazing Adventures in Beautiful Places
In September I attended the annual conference of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine, held in the beautiful little town of Martigney, nestled in a Swiss alpine valley.
In 56-57 BC Ceasar's Twelth Legion was reportedly ambushed here by 30,000 local Gauls who'd surrounded them during the night. After defending their incomplete fortifications without pause for six hours they managed to sortie out and escape with their lives. They reportedly killed around 1/3 of their opponents. But the result was one of the few defeats of a roman legion. They did not return.
In 56-57 BC Ceasar's Twelth Legion was reportedly ambushed here by 30,000 local Gauls who'd surrounded them during the night. After defending their incomplete fortifications without pause for six hours they managed to sortie out and escape with their lives. They reportedly killed around 1/3 of their opponents. But the result was one of the few defeats of a roman legion. They did not return.