Under Siege! Whether it is a city, a town, a battalion or a regiment, the blood is stirred by stories of those that, usually vastly outnumbered, have stood behind walls, and barricades in a last stand against their attackers. So what makes those under siege battle on when to do so often had little logic? Who were the leaders who rallied their troops or their fellow citizens? What drives man and women to acts of extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice? Why had victory sometimes been won when bloody failure looks absolutely certain?

The Battle of Alesia and the battles that raged around it are often considered to be the finest military exploits in the career of Julius Caesar. ... After a prolonged campaign, he succeeded in forcing Vercingetorix and about 60,000 men to defend the fortified hilltop town of Alesia.

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