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Crassus and TARUSATES









remember us! Or rather, we defer to the story of Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War (Book III)
Sos en Albret (
oppidum Sontiatum
) between Nerac and St. Justin. These Sotiates deliver a cavalry battalion and an ambush that ended in failure. Forced to take refuge in their capital they are besieged and eventually capitulate (output led Adiatuanos their leader has the same place during the talks).
After this first victory, Crassus walking on land
Vocative (country Bazas) before descending to the land of Tarusates
.

The Aquitaine, warned of the rapid decline of their neighbors, and together form a coalition troops, seek the assistance of the English dominions, and prepare for resistance to prevent the enemy reaches the fertile land south of the Adour. Given the rapid setting of Sos, according to Caesar, they give aàsoutenir new seats and adopt the tactics of the fortified camps from which races are organized to intercept food. And this is probably one of those camps they congregate. They are almost 50 000.
Crassus, outnumbered, Deida to attack as soon as possible and goes into battle order. Aquitans refusing to fight the Romans assail the camp where the enemy is entrenched and consolidated. Having spotted a weakness of the fortification at the back of this camp that offers easy access point, Crassus is sending his cavalry and four cohorts all fresh, making a long detour, to steal the march. The Romans forced entry and then enter the camp by surprise. It is then routed the fleeing
Aquitaine. In rural Roman cavalry crushes the fugitives. On the night of this last fight Caesar specifies that only a quarter of the 50,000 enemy escapes. Implying 35,000 dead! the sound of this defeat, the greater part of Aquitania went to Crassus, and sends itself hostage. Among these are the Tarbell (Dax), the Bigerrions (Bigorre?), The Ptianes (Orthez?), Vocations (Bazas), the Tarusates (Aire), the Elusates (Eauze), the Gates (?), The Ausques (Auch), the Garunni (upper valley of the Garonne), the Sibuzates (Saubusse?) and Cocosates (between Lesperon and Sindères?) A few states away relying on the advanced season, fail to do so
is this second battle, which completed the conquest and submission of Aquitaine by the Romans .
Thus began the occupation ( Some authors state that four cohorts occupied the country of Tarbell and six of the Cocosates, between 56 and 27 BC)






All this happened in the late summer of the year 56 BC but where exactly?

The location of that fight is still not determined. Several distinguished authors have broken teeth on the case, sometimes with passion, ready to come to blows to support conflicting versions. Any problem stems from the difficulty of locating people with the certainty of Tarusates. Despite the apparent kinship with Tartas (which did not exist at the time of the Roman conquest), historians tend to locate along the Adour and identify them with future Aturenses at Aire sur l'Adour, in every in the case Tursan.

Hypothesis Aire sur l'Adour (Atura) s seems to press the topography of the site that allows the positioning and maneuvering of opponents of Crassus in the battle as described by Caesar. Supporters of this option (Samazeuilh-Sorbets) evoke the collective memory that has kept traces that result in the names of places that adjoin the supposed place where the bataille.Ainsi indulged, on the hill called Wood Cazamon at East, was a circular enclosure surrounded by ditches. Nearby stood a post called Castra Cesar. Back was also Mireloup of tuc. Finally, to the west, the height called Lasserre Pompey. In the center, fortified oppidum Tarusatium on the board (where the church Mas) then became Civitas Aturensium Vicus Julii. Remains to determine the destination of each of these places. No evidence of remains discovered no evidence to corroborate these assertions
Other authors (Tauzin) reply that referred to two camps near Caesar: the Roman camp housing 000 men 8 to 10, the camp Aquitaine much wider since containing 50 000 men. Moreover, these camps should be close to a large open space (
apertissimis Campis
) or the Roman cavalry pursued the defeated (thin near the word apertissimis Caesar camps commentary indicates that the battle was fought in a vast open country)
Caesar also makes no reference to the Adour flowing at the foot of Aire
The Aquitaine who refused to defend himself in their oppidum, Crassus met do so elsewhere.


Therefore Abbe Tauzin, excluding that the battle took place in area, elects to Miramont (the camp of Aquitaine) and Sarron, between St Agnes and Segos-houses between the host and Bourg God - (the Roman camp)

On this same basis, each historian space on one of the many hills of castra along the Adour. Dompnier Sauviac up to the place of the second battle of St. castra Loubouer or that of Samadet (chronicling the city of Acqs), although further away from the plain. Sorbets

situates in an area between Cazaubon, Roquefort and Saint Cricq Marsan. Camoreyt evokes a map of Robert in 1753 which contains a rectangle showing Caesar's camp on the right bank of the Twelve and Mauvezin between Cazaubon.

For others it is around Geaune. The famous Camille Jullian him up the battle to Dax or pie! (History

patina is the meal!
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About where Crassus met with deputies from Aquitaine to submit, M Chaudruc Crazannes (New Considerations on Sotiates - Collected works of socieété of Agriculture, Science and Arts Agen-Tome VI 1852 ).... evokes an ancient tradition of the place on the village site Lannepax which offered a wide moor, which was named Lanae pax (Heath peace) it has retained.
link to
MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT Plat AIRE-SUR-Article l'Adour Cédric Lavigne







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