Statue of Boduognatus by Joseph Ducaju 1859

"After he had made three days march through their territories, he discovered from some prisoners, that the river Sambre was not more than ten miles from his camp; that all the Nervii had stationed themselves on the other side of that river, and together with the Atrebates and the Viromandui, their neighbors, were there awaiting the arrival of the Romans; for they had persuaded both these nations to try the same fortune of war [as themselves]: that the forces of the Aduatuci were also expected by them, and were on their march; that they had put their women, and those who through age appeared useless for war, in a place to which there was no approach for an army, on account of the marshes."

-Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War: Book 2, Chapter 16

Statue in Antwerp, taken in 1954 and seriously damaged. Head and torso were kept in the Middelheim Museum in 2020.

1910.

"This Boduognat, leader of the Nervians, is the only one that has not survived the urbanization projects of the 20th century tailored to the car. In 1954 the statue of Joseph Ducaju was cut to pieces and decorated the head of the dying hero who no one else Antwerp as a silent witness to 19th century statuomania"

Source:

https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:001201357

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Boduognat_staand.jpg

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2048001/Athena_Plus_ProvidedCHO_KIK_IRPA__Brussels__Belgium__AP_10366949

http://www.ebru.be/n/1000/brussel-1000-boduognatusstraat.html

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/564146290820684512/

http://cartophilie.be/nl/beelden/modules.php?name=Picture_gallery&pa=view&scrid=3&lang=Du&dispq=6&viewid=100042602

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/582160689305470854/

https://g-geschiedenis.eu/2016/09/01/foute-standbeelden/

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https://www.facebook.com/middelheimmuseum/photos/a.386141436050/10153366159001051/?type=3&theater

 

Quote:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War/Book_2#16