Gallic Wars
Date | 58–50 BC
Location | Gaul (present-day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, and northern Italy)
Result | Decisive Roman victory
Territorial changes | Roman Republic annexes Gaul Gaul becomes a Roman province
Belligerents
Roman Republic | Gauls: Allobroges Arverni Atrebates Bituriges Caletes Eburones Helvetii Menapii Morini Nervii Nantuates Remi Seduni Sequani Sotiates Suessiones Veliocasses Veneti Veragri Viromandui other Germanic: Aduatuci Harudes Marcomanni Triboci Vangiones Nemetes Sicambri Suebi Tencteri Ubii Usipetes Britons and Aquitanian tribes as well as portions of Iberian tribesmen
Commanders and leaders
Gaius Julius Caesar Titus Labienus Mark Antony Quintus Tullius Cicero Publius Licinius Crassus Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus Servius Sulpicius Galba | Vercingetorix Ambiorix Indutiomarus Commius Ariovistus Cassivellaunus
Strength
120,000: 60,000 legionaries 60,000 auxiliaries | 4,000,000
Casualties and losses
30,000+ killed, 10,000+ wounded | Plutarch and Appian: 1,000,000 Celts killed in hand-to-hand combat 1,000,000+ Celts enslaved 430,000 Germans killed (Julius Caesar) 800 towns destroyed
Caesar would also raid Britannia and Germania, but these expeditions never developed into full-scale invasions.

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