self-devastation

Updated: May 17, 2025

By order of Vercingetorix more than twenty townships of the Bituriges perished in the flames on one day; the general decreed a similar self-devastation as to the neighbour cantons, so far as they could be reached by the Roman foraging parties. Caesar before Arvaricum

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

By order of Vercingetorix more than twenty townships of the Bituriges perished in the flames on one day; the general decreed a similar self-devastation as to the neighbour cantons, so far as they could be reached by the Roman foraging parties. Caesar before Arvaricum

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy