Ceasar's Gallic Campaign

The Roman republic at the birth of Caesar (100BC) was a stagnant and decaying political structure that had outgrown the area it was set to govern. The Gallic War gave Caesar the staging point he needed to lay the ground work for the Roman Empire. Frank Herbert an American historian states “ The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent” Herbert’s comment concerning the causes of conflict can be considered accurate in relation to Caesar’s Gallic war because it provided Caesar and Rome with great wealth and in turn gave Caesar more influence. Detailed examination of What the Gallic war was, Why it occurred and the consequences of the war will prove that the Caesar’s Gallic war gave him the wealth and power needed to lay the foundation for the Roman Empire.
The Conquest of Gaul was a military expansion by the Roman Republic, which started in Transalpine Gaul (Southern France) and included two expeditions into Britain and an expedition over the Rhine into Germania. The conquest of Gaul originally started as the repulsion of a Gallic tribe called the Helvetti. Caesar stated that “Orgetorix was the Gallic chieftain ordered the tribe to move through Roman land” .Through a series of pitched battle the Helvetti were routed and Roman land had been defended. Then Ariovistus a, German warlord, launched a campaign to conquer land in Gaul. Goldsworthy highlights how this escalates commenting that it “led on to further conflicts with more distant tribes, till Caesar’s legions had subdue the whole area”. Caesar subdued all of Gaul and then began to venture further abroad. “Caesar made active preparations for expeditions to Britain because he knew that in almost all the Gallic campaigns the Gaul’s had received reinforcements from the Britons” . After being repulsed from Britain in both of his expeditions due to storms the final major conflict was to occur in the Gallic war. “In 52 BC a revolt broke out under the command of