Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix (c. 75 BC-c. 46 BC) battled valiantly to keep the Roman army from overrunning the territory of Gaul, as France was then called. His troops were defeated at Alesia and Vercingetorix was forced to surrender. Revered in...

d. 46 B.C. Gallic chieftain who, because of his famous conflict with Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.), became one of the first "barbarian" figures known to history. In 52 B.C. Caesar had nearly completed the conquest of Gaul when...

Vercingetorix (pronounced [werkiŋˈɡetoriks] in Latin, died 46 BC), was chieftain of the Arverni, originating from the Arvernian city of Gergovia and known as the man who led the Gauls in their ultimately unsuccessful war against Roman rule under...