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Meuse

Place

Gallic War 4.9 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Caesar said that he could not grant them even that; for he had learned that they had sent a great part of their cavalry over the Meuse to the Ambivariti, some days before, for the purpose of plundering and procuring forage. …”

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Gallic War 4.9

Caesar

… Caesar said that he could not grant them even that; for he had learned that they had sent a great part of their cavalry over the Meuse to the Ambivariti, some days before, for the purpose of plundering and procuring forage. …

Gallic War 4.9

Gallic War 4.10

Caesar

The Meuse rises from mount Le Vosge, which is in the territories of the Lingones ; and, having received a branch of the Rhine , which is called the Waal , forms the island of the Batavi, and not more than eighty miles from it it falls into the ocean. …

Gallic War 4.10

Gallic War 4.12

Caesar

But the enemy, as soon as they saw our horse, the number of which was 5000, whereas they themselves had not more than 800 horse, because those which had gone over the Meuse for the purpose of foraging had not returned, while our men had no apprehensions, because their embassadors had gone away from Caesar a little before, and that day had been requested by them as a period of truce, made an onset on our men, and soon threw them into disorder. …

Gallic War 4.12

Geographical record

Pleiades representative point · precise

The Meuse or Maas river.

Pleiades 109180 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 E1 Mosa fl.

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