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Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were the walls
around Alesia.....
Apparently the great military and political leader, Julius Caesar
knew of the concept of high volume manufacturing. He had to provide weapons and food for around
100,000 soldiers at times. Obviously, they had many techniques to make high volume production possible.
The Romans were also skilled iron and bronze workers. Around 49 BC. when
Caesar was crossing the Rubicon he made his famous comment "The die is cast." The Rubicon river was the defining
border which meant he was crossing over and re-entering Roman territory with his massive legion to take over and rule Rome. He was returning from a battle in Gaul which took years to accomplish. In the duration of his
campaign, Caesar spared no expense engineering two massive walls surrounding a
large hilltop town called Alesia.
First, it is important to know, when manufacturing anything in volume, that you must first make a model, a template, or
arrange jigs and gauges to locate your project. You must plan often way in advance. This is considered a strategy that can't be avoided in many cases,
especially in the military, and in industry. This type of pre-planning takes special care, taking into consideration the material to be worked, and the amount of product to be produced.
Caesar knew that any achievement took planning, and a methodology, a series of
procedures and steps to follow. The best tools and weapons were not always
the whole solution.
In a town called Alesia near central "Gaul" as France was called at the time,
Caesar knew that it was essential to "cast a plan." Surely at times Rome was a fierce and
uncompromising force of unchallenged power. So, in order to protect Caesar's struggling Empire, he had to secure the land and the sea from Roman enemies, otherwise trade would suffer, and grain prices, among other things would rise, causing internal strife. Roving bandits were a major reason for the military buildup when Rome was just developing into an Empire. Gaul was located on the
northern border of the Roman Empire.
Alesia, in the center of Gaul was a mud and timber, walled city containing tens of thousand of armed enemies, many who raided the trade routes. Alesia also had many allies in the nearby lands to assemble should Rome ever invade.
Caesar had two major problems to contend with. Knowing that he would be attacked from behind once an attempt was made to attack Alesia,
Caesar had to devise a strategy. The volume of soldiers to confront was stifling by any accounts. Some scholars say their were a minimum of 80,000 in each army, possibly 250,000 total.
Caesar was challenged by an immense project when he decided to build a 10 mile wall around Alesia in order to cut off all supplies to the city. His foresight led to another engineering masterpiece....a second outer wall.
After completion of the wall, Caesar built another wall to protect his legion from the outside tribes! The General was told that he would confront
swarms of local armies assembling to help the army constrained inside the
fort-like city. Caesar was about to construct one of the most massive military feats in history to save as many soldiers as possible.
Caesar cared quite a lot about his troops, so he made an effort to build a 10-15 mile wall for them outside of the other wall built to contain Alesia. Vercingetorix, the leader inside the city made numerous attacks during construction of the walls. During the night attacks, some of his soldiers escaped into the wild to rally armies across Gaul. In spite of the massive battles to come from the outside,
Caesar won with the help of freshly suited German soldiers. Vercingetorix eventually surrendered Alesia and the
remainder of his army was taken back to Rome, to prisons and to labor camps. From there,
Caesar marched back to Rome with an historical heroes welcome from many for his engineering and military victories.
More famous walls....
It may be interesting to know another fact about walls. The Roman Generals may have known about the Great Wall of China, thousands of miles long, built way before
Caesar. They say the Great Wall was built around 221 BC by the armies of Qin, approximately
300,000 of them.
One of the most famous walls, and quite possibly the basis for much of Western literature, wisdom and history is the Wall around the City of Troy. The Greeks spent years devising a strategy to penetrate the Walls of Troy. Realizing it would be too costly to continue, they took an even stranger course of action. Like
Caesar, they patiently devised an engineering wonder. You know the rest of this story, and how they were able simply open the gates from the inside.
Hadrian's Wall was built by General Hadrian around AD 122-30 was 73 miles long. That wall stretched across the Northern border of Britain. It was built to keep out northerners, mostly Picts, while Britain was occupied by Rome for around 400 years. Nowadays, huge concrete and lumber barrier walls are mostly mass produced and erected along most city
inner belts. Together they must stretch quite a ways too! It all begins with lot's of planning, and an efficient, methodical and patient engineer. It's
not always the best tools, but the best intelligence and information that
completes the task at hand.
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