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WALKER'S CAMPAIGN MAP FOR CAESAR, GALLIC WAR BOOK 2

EXPLANATION OF CAMPAIGN MAP For the meaning of the colors, see the explanation of the campaign map for I, 1-29, facing p. 42. The same territory is colored red as in the campaign map for I, 30-54, facing p. 117. In addition, the Nervii, the Viromandui, the Atrebates, and the Atuatuci are colored red, for they seriously fought with Caesar. Most of the rest of Belgium is colored blue, though it is hard to decide between blue and red for some of the states. Although all the states had promised to send quotas to the great army which melted away before Caesar at the Axona, we cannot be sure how many did so; and it can hardly be said that Caesar won the submission of the several states by defeating that army. The Suessiones prepared to fight, but did not do so. The Bellovaci and the Ambiani did not even prepare to fight. Therefore these three states are colored blue. The states which are not mentioned must in general have sent embassies of submission; but the Morini and the Menapii are left uncolored, because in III, 28 we are told that they had never sued for peace. The northwestern states mentioned in chap. 34 are colored blue. Crassus went to them with only one legion, and the events of Book III make it certain that one legion could not have defeated those states in battle. Evidently they submitted without fighting. The battle-fields on the Axona and on the Sabis are as certain as they well can be. The site of the town of the Atuatuci is very uncertain. The one indicated on the map is Mont Falhize, championed by Von Goler (Caesars Gallischer Krieg, pp, 90 ff.). Caesar does not tell us that the town was on a river; but all the other sites which have been suggested are open to more serious objections.

Arthur Tappan Walker, Caesar's Gallic War (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1907), p. 162 [1].