Alesia Public Affairs

Because the Battle of Alesia in the year 52 BC constitutes one of history’s most compelling examples of how human courage and ingenuity can transform near-certain disaster into triumph.

At Alesia – near the city of Dijon in modern France – Julius Caesar and his Roman legions found themselves outnumbered and trapped between two rebel armies. But through a combination sheer will and brilliant out-of-the-box thinking Caesar was able to reverse the tide of battle, inflicting decisive defeat on the Gauls and ending their uprising against Rome.