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When Caesar was besieging the Gauls at Alesia, Vercingetorix in a brilliant maneuver surrounded the Roman legions. Under any other general the Roman army would have been demolished, but Caesar successfully turned that tide and defeated the Gaul’s at Alessia. The Battle of Alesia ended the Gallic rebellion. Vercingetorix was later strangled as part of the Triumph of Caesar in Rome.<ref> Plutarch. Life of Caesar. 16</ref> After his victories, Caesar typically left the local Gaul elites in power and imposed no new burdens on them. These favorable terms allowed Rome to kept Gaul (already exhausted by so many unsuccessful battles) in obedience.<ref><i>Cesar</i>, 8.49</ref> Caesar’s victory in Gaul was total, and there was no further any attempt by the Gauls to throw off Roman rule. The area became a crucial part of the Roman Empire until the fall of the Western Empire in the mid-5th century AD.

====Impact of the Conquest on Roman Politics====