Vercingetorix by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 1903

"When Vercingetorix, nevertheless, would not descend to the level ground, a slight cavalry action, and that a successful one, having taken place, he led back his army into the camp. When he had done this, the next day, thinking that he had done enough to lower the pride of the Gauls, and to encourage the minds of his soldiers, he moved his camp in the direction of the Aedui. The enemy not even then pursuing us, on the third day he repaired the bridge over the river Allier, and led over his whole army."

-Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars: Book 7.53

Vercingetorix by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 1903

"Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and as a liaison officer to Italian General Giuseppe Garibaldi, representing the French government and the Army of the Vosges." Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi at Chalons-sur-Saone. Photograph by Paul Bourgeois. Musée Bartholdi Colmar. Photograph © Christian Kempf.

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http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.7.7.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Auguste_Bartholdi