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unusual facts about Rue d'Alésia


Rue d'Alésia

Lined with trees, the street extends to the east as Rue de Tolbiac into the XIIIe arrondissement, and to the west as Rue de Vouillé into the XVe arrondissement.


Alesia Graf

Alesia Graf (born October 14, 1980 in Homel, Belarus) is the German two-time world champion boxer (GBU, WIBF) in the Junior Bantamweight division.

Barbara Moraff

Moraff's first child, Alesia, was born in 1966, and shortly afterward Moraff bought a remote hilltop farm in Strafford, Vermont.

Jules Quicherat

In one point he seems to have taken a false step; with a warmth and pertinacity worthy of a better cause he maintained the identity of Caesar's Alesia with Alaise, and he died without becoming a convert to the opinion, now almost universally accepted, that Alise Sainte-Reine is the place where Vercingetorix capitulated.

Lucterius

Lucterius remained at large after the surrender of Vercingetorix at Alesia and continued the resistance the following year in an alliance with Drappes, a Senonian under whom motley contingents of Gallic rebels had gathered.

Redones

In 52 BCE the Redones with their neighbors sent a contingent to attack Caesar during the siege of Alesia.

Siege of Kut

Like Caesar at the Alesia, he prepared for an attack from Basra, using the Tigris River, by building defensive positions further down the river.

The Druid King

However, Caesar realizing that the Gaul's could not resist a siege, and after months of maneuvering, forces Vercingetorix to move his army to Alesia where the superior siege technology of the Romans traps Vercingetorix in the city, and successfully resists the reinforcements of the all the tribes of Gaul.

Xavier Guichard

His 1936 book Eleusis Alesia: Enquête sur les origines de la civilisation européenne is an early example of speculative thinking concerning Earth mysteries, based on his observations of apparent alignments between Alesia-like place names on a map of France.


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