To: blam
I just ordered 15 Axtrix books today. Just for my 12 year old son. Well maybe I read a few too.
To: Maine Mariner
The Gauls were great iron workers and great military opponents. The Romans modeled their helmets and shields after Gallic types and the famous Roman Short Sword (Galdius Hipaniensis) was modeled on a weapon used by Celt-Iberians. Later on, Gauls were recruited in large numbers into the Legions and one of Caesar’s Legions, the Alaudae, was composed of Gallic recruits.
Their problem was they they fought each other as readily as they fought Romans or Germans.
7 posted on
09/01/2007 8:05:23 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Maine Mariner
The Gauls were great iron workers and great military opponents. The Romans modeled their helmets and shields after Gallic types and the famous Roman Short Sword (Gladius Hipaniensis) was modeled on a weapon used by Celt-Iberians. Later on, Gauls were recruited in large numbers into the Legions and one of Caesar’s Legions, the Alaudae, was composed of Gallic recruits.
Their problem was they they fought each other as readily as they fought Romans or Germans.
8 posted on
09/01/2007 8:05:35 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Maine Mariner
Next thing they’ll tell us is that Obelix didn’t carve lots of menhirs! Through them, I learned so much about the countries Asterix visited (at least as they were in the 1970’s when the books I have were printed) - they may have stereotyped the countries, including the Gauls, but sometimes the stereotypes were very close to the truth!
To: LibreOuMort
Asterix anns a' Ghàidhlig ping!
30 posted on
09/02/2007 8:49:58 AM PDT by
sionnsar
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