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Season 1

(2004)

Episodes

Alesia poster

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January 1, 2004

As resistance to the Roman invasion, the Gallic warrior Vercingetorix marshalled troops against the Romans and their mo…

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January 8, 2004

Here at Ciudad Rodrigo, there was the bloody business of siege warfare – where civilians and soldiers share the same co…

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January 15, 2004

Union forces should have seized Petersburg in June 1864, but through a mixture of confusion and incompetence they faile…

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January 22, 2004

Almost 700,000 French and German troops had been killed or wounded in this hellish protracted siege that earned the chi…

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January 29, 2004

The grim, powerful story of the "Hero City" that lost one million of its citizens as it steadfastly withstood a 900-day…

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February 5, 2004

The battles for the strategically-vital town in Nottinghamshire, England are classic examples of how a siege was conduc…