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Re:Battle of Alesia by adger on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:21PM (#21994207)
But...Is it not more like Englishmen celebrating Alfred the Great? You know, the Anglo-Saxon leader. A Germanic peoples (Alfred's army was also made up of Britons)
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Re:Battle of Alesia by PeterCorless on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:41PM (#21996557)
Alfred would not be the correct analogy to Gaul/Rome. The Gauls were "Celtic" like Arthur's Britons. They were both facing invasions.

Alfred's French analogy would be Charles the Simple, who had to fight off the Norse invaders and made a treaty to give them Normandy. Though, it has to be said, Charles the Simple had a much better time of it.

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