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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 252799" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter VI -- Revolt and Revenge (continued)When the besieged legion paraded for their commander in chief, Caesar saw that nine out of ten legionaries were wounded.I guess that says a lot for Roman armor and Roman medical care.  Nine out of ten injured, but not mortally wounded.Caesar was not long in accepting the invitation to attack Bourges.  For three weeks his legions laid siege to the town in incessant winter rain, using their usual siege techniques.  Two legions remained on standby during the night and slept during the day, with the remaining legions working in daylight shifts at undermining the town walls and battering the gates, using the shelter of mantlets and siege towers.Those mantlets and siege towers must provide excellent cover that soldiers can work for hours at a time attacking the walls without disastrous casualties.The defenders weren't idle either.  There were a number of copper miners in the town, and they dug tunnels out under the town walls to undermine the siege works.You dig tunnels under your own walls to attack the people attacking your walls?  That works?But ultimately, inevitably, the legions came over the walls one wet night.How exactly?  Did they topple a wall?  Build a ramp?  Rely on ladders and siege towers to rush the walls?</blockquote>